As we hinted before, we’ve been working on making Blogger an OpenID provider. With our latest Blogger in Draft release, we’ve done just that. You can now use your blog’s URL as an OpenID URL on any website that accepts OpenID 1.1 authentication.To enable OpenID for your blogs, just edit your profile on
draft.blogger.com and enable the checkbox which says Enable OpenID for Blogs and you are all set!
After checking this box, you can use the URL of any of the blogs you are an admin of as an OpenID identity. When you use it to log in to another site, you will be taken back to Blogger where you can confirm that Blogger can tell the site that you own the domain.You can find more information about OpenID and how it works at OpenID.net.
We hope you’ll try out using your blog as your OpenID identity around the web. Let us know how it goes in the comments! If you’re looking for things to do, take a look at MyOpenID’s OpenID Site Directory for OpenID-enabled sites.
Since this feature is still in draft, there are a few caveats:
- We currently do not support OpenID for blogs that aren’t hosted on Blog*Spot or a custom domain, such as FTP blogs. However, the OpenID web site has a help page that explains how to workaround this limitation by delegating your FTP blog to a Blogger-hosted blog.
- If you say “Yes, Always” to trust an OpenID site forever, you cannot now delete that trust. We will add this feature soon.
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Wowww....
Awesome
It would be nice if I can see list of trusted sites. ;)
And thank you for your effort.
Great news, but it didn't seem to work with my blog. Perhaps because I already delegated it to myopenid.com?
If you have already delegated it, then the Blogger discovery tag is not auto-inserted. Try removing your tags and see if it works.
As always, well done. OpenID is just the best.
testing my domain hosted blog
This is good, but what are you doing to prevent spam and anonymous OpenIDs?
testing...
Let's see if (and how) it works...
Works great - the authorization redirect works very smoothly. I'd echo alexindigo's comment about trusted sites - I can't see how I would manage my trusted\approved sites lists from within my blogger (draft)profile. Otherwise this is excellent work folks - now go bang on the PR drum and get some media attention. :)
Very nice!
OpenID enabled.
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It works! Great! :D
LiveJournal showed my URL as my nickname. Checking now to see if the same thing happens here on Blogger.
This is fantastic! I'm not a Blogger user (in that, although I read several Blogger blogs, my own blog runs WordPress) but I really appreciate this. Keep up the great work :)
On a sidenote, could you consider linking to openiddirectory.com? It's a lot more organised than JanRain's unordered list...
congrats on launching, guys!
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Excellent...that was the most wanted feature on blogger....
Blogged about it here..
http://anuragbansal.blogspot.com/2008/01/use-blogger-as-openid-authentication.html
Funny thing is I don't have that option in my profile to enable openID, mmh
Stupid me I just found it. I guess I better look twice before making comments just like so
This is really cool Blogger!
Now geeks and non-geeks can really speak the same language again.
LONG LIVE BLOGGER!!!
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It seems to pick up the first non-'www' term as the name of the user. So if your url is www.myname.com, your name will show as 'myname'. If your url is sub.myname.com, it will show as 'sub'.
Now all we need is for non-blogspot Google Passports to have OpenIDs of their own, and I'll have too many OpenIDs under my belt. (I already have like 7, I can't wait for more providers to follow spec 2.0 so that I can link em all together)
Nice work...
Am I alone if finding this a completely useless feature?
The last thing OpenID needs is a million and one OpenID providers!
What we need is popular websites *accepting* existing, external OpenIDs as sign-ons.
When will I be able to use myopenid to log into Blogger?
Now that *would* impress me!
Rated: 1/5
I already have an OpenID, but let me try my Blogger blog's URL here. :)
just trying this to see how it works. awesome work guys.
Great feature !
@heavylight - as Blogger already allow OpenID for commenting, I'm sure accepting it for signing in must be inevitable.
Well, I hope so at least.
Its been working beautifully so far. I'm so glad Google took this first step to be a full OpenID supporter (Provider+Relay Agent).
Excellent, thank you!
testing openID
can I use openid for creating a blog?
No, you cannot create a blog using your OpenID.
Es tan difícil hacer todo en español. tembien toda la interface.
Apenas te moves del tronco principal de la información ya está en inglés.
Gracias Beatriz
Beatriz
https://draft.blogger.com/start?hl=es
(Im pretty sure the spanish person was complaining that they didnt have spanish settings on)
OpenID does not work with Drupal.
error:Invalid AuthRequest: 768: Invalid value for openid.ns field: http://openid.net/signon/1.0
This is the feature that put blogger just slightly over the top for me! Please keep adding useful, open, and Internet-compatible features like this. Thanks!
ok so now i can just go right in and my account is set up and with open social my info just follows me in the door. So if signing up is instant and creating profile is instant then wheres the fun?
i thought over 6 years that internet was all about filling in fun forms and new avatars and answering questions about my interests ,pets and education.
What next?
instant coffee?
It's nice!
Testing openid
I still prefer the other option now renamed Nickname. It suits me and other bloggers just fine. Why make a feature difficult?
Good Idea!
It would be more convenient!
It doesn't work when using the https:// prefix...ts, ts...
Excellent
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I've noticed that blogger now always puts the <link rel="openid.server" .. /> element in the head section of my blog, even if I go to draft.blogger.com and uncheck the profile box described in this post. I find it a bit annoying that blogger is putting stuff into the HTML without me requesting it in the template, particularly as what blogger inserts is not legal HTML (the empty tag syntax is not formally allowed by HTML 4). I went to a lot of work to get my blog to validate as HTML4, and this breaks it.
i can not access to http://ctbriefs.net/
(Authentication error; not a valid OpenID.)
Excellent. Doesn't work with Movable Type though:
We are sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.
When reporting this error to Blogger Support or on the Blogger Help Group, please:
* Describe what you were doing when you got this error.
* Provide the following error code and additional information.
bX-56yyba
Additional information
host: draft.blogger.com
uri: /openid-login.g
great work! but as usual there are some problems :(
the one that bothers me a lot is that some consumers dont add the trailing slash after identity ('http://swined.net.ru') and google doesnt handle it well. i've spent a lot of time before i figured out that i just can add it manually. but finally it appeared that it's not a good solution - 'swined.net.ru' and 'swined.net.ru/' are different for some sites.
so i hope you'll fix it and such meaningless things like lack of trailing slash wont break the auth.
This is great! Hopefully all major internet companies will fully accept OpenId soon!
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Obviously, before this launches for real, I need to be able to use my display name instead of my blog URL.
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Testing from a blog with custom domain name but hosted at blogger.
Works! Great work!
Feature request - An option to have using OpenID default when logged in. I much prefer get my name linked to my blog over having it linked to my profile.
Granted, it's not much work to click a togel button, a field, type a letter and chose the url, and it may be messy for people having more then one blog. But for us having only one blog it would be a good feature.
swined: The consumer is supposed to fix the url. That dose not mean google should not work around it - But the bug is on the other end.
pathawks.com: OpenID is about url, the url is the id and the url is what get verified. The good thing is you can use any url You control!
@redlib: You're right, I just think it's silly that I have ".com" inserted as part of my name when I comment.
You don't list your URL as your nickname. Not sure why/how I do...
it would be great if readers of private blogspot blogs could be permitted to log in with their OpenID address.
Logging into Blogger only to leave a comment with an OpenID account kind of defeats the purpose of OpenID.
So far, it seems that LJ.com is the only mainstream blogging service that allows bi-directional OpenID access. If more providers don't go bi-directional, then the entire concept will essentially whither on the vine.
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another test :)
Well problogger.net gave me the first convincing reason as to why I should use openid and here I am.
As of last night's release, OpenID provider has been published on www.blogger.com.
Thanks for your feedback!
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