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iPhone on Rails and ObjectiveResource; Making communication betw. Puppet « reductive. Capistrano. Substruct - Google Code. The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications. OpenID, with the superhuman effort of Mr Willison is taking the world by storm and I am amoungst the masses leaping onto the bandwagon. Simon has done an excellent post and screencast detailing the whys and what-fors of OpenID so I thought I’d have a bash at applying the same no-bullshit approach to the other side of the coin, supporting (or as the official terminology puts it consuming) OpenID in your applications.

With this post I’m going to blast through the absolute essentials you need to get started so if you need more general background on OpenID check out Simon’s stuff first. The examples, as you might except will be using Ruby on Rails but all of the concepts are applicable across platforms. So, without further ado, grab yourself a beer and we’ll begin… Overview of the authentication process When consuming OpenID what you are trying to do is ask the user for their OpenID (which is a URL) then ascertain from their OpenID server that they actually own this OpenID.

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