OpenID delegation

By georgepalmer

When we presented at Barcamp Sheffield the most requested feature in the Q&A at the end was for OpenID delegation. The principle of OpenID delegation is that if you ever wanted/needed to change your OpenID URL going round all your web accounts and changing the URL would be a real pain. As such you can use another location as your OpenID URL which simply refers to your current OpenID account through a HTML meta tag. Then if you decided to change your OpenID provider you simply have to change the URL in one place. It’s a neat idea and is already become increasingly popular as the number of OpenID providers grows.

OpenID delegation screenshot

With idlasso you can set or change your OpenID URL on the user details page (as shown in the screenshot). Your default card at http://yourusername.idlasso.com will then do OpenID delegation for you. This is also really neat as your initial OpenID page acts as a profile with all your web accounts, rather than some standard profile page with just a name.

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