Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Using Blogger’s OpenID with any URL

One of the cool things with our recent OpenID release is that you can use your own website, blog, or URL as your OpenID and still use Blogger as your OpenID provider. In the OpenID world, this is called “delegation,” and all it means is that you can use your own non-Blog*Spot URL as your OpenID identity, but still log in to OpenID sites with the Google Account you use on Blogger.

For example, if you have a blog at http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com/ but own the website http://www.myurl.com/, you can easily OpenID-enable http://www.myurl.com/. Just add this HTML to the <head> section of http://www.myurl.com/:

<link rel="openid.server" href="http://draft.blogger.com/openid-server.g" />
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com" />

(Obviously, change “http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com” to your own blog’s URL.)

You’re all set. You can now use http://www.myurl.com/ as your OpenID identity on any site that accepts OpenID authentication, and you will be directed to Blogger to sign in.

28 comments:

Shayon™ said...

Is this applicable even when i use Blogger as the host?

kindspirit said...

As if signing into anything is difficult! OpenID makes as much sense as driving to the next town for cheaper gas.

Xavier Belanche said...

Test my openid

zwyrthrop said...

Testing my openid

placidfreedom said...

Testing my openid.. This is good..

Just curious - can my blogspot url be the host too?

dogpics said...

But can I comment on Blogger using an OpenID 2.0 provider like Yahoo?

dogpics said...

This a test of Yahoo's OP

_09h8DAthcjP1EUFB29yD6KqVdK0t6Vetw-- said...

This is a test of the other Yahoo OpenID url

daus said...

oks

resmo said...

testing....

trebacka said...

testing my openid

rrX8vHMhhPB8m4Ej_xWqZr7.JD813x9BoPWOdgw- said...

testing yahoo open id.
Ive noticed it doesnt work on some sites, ie:
http://openid.verselogic.net/wp-login.php

johnny said...

This is nice.

jeffreykishner said...

testing

palio190v said...

This is great, it's much more easier to write my URI than the whole way to my site!

Saravanakumar D said...
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pathawks.com said...

Testing the old ID

Free, Anonymous OpenID by http://www.jkg.in/ said...

testing anonymous openids

dfcamara said...

I had to put a trailing slash in openid.delegate href url:

<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://yourbloggerblog.blogspot.com/" />

for it to work with http://www.propeller.com/ OpenId authentication. Don't know yet for others sites.

eternoprimerizo said...

Test my openid

KoUEtHlzk5aPYpsIG11eTpow2ima said...

openid is really the next big thing in easy web surfing

phpmyid.com said...

Another test...

helrazr87 said...

nice

periapex said...

Cool.

Charo said...

Testing my openid. Thank you for your support.

A said...

Testing OpenID

jp-labs said...

fascinating!

Pete said...

As of last night's release, OpenID provider has been published on www.blogger.com.

Thanks for your feedback!