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richards1052

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Dec 22, 2007, 8:21:30 PM12/22/07
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I'm trying to figure out why I get this error using WP 2.2.2 when I
attempt to enter a user URL:

"Error: Could not discover an OpenID identity server endpoint..."

Chris Messina

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Dec 22, 2007, 9:16:56 PM12/22/07
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Hi Richard,

Can you give us the URL you're trying to use as your OpenID?

Chris

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richards1052

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Dec 25, 2007, 4:44:02 AM12/25/07
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Pretty much any url:

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/category/mideast-peace/

are a few I've tried...

On Dec 22, 6:16 pm, Chris Messina <chris.mess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Can you give us the URL you're trying to use as your OpenID?
>
> Chris
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 22, 2007, at 5:21 PM,richards1052<richards1...@comcast.net>

Tijs Teulings

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Dec 25, 2007, 4:52:13 AM12/25/07
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Hi Richard,

Your website does not seem to have any pointer to your openid
provider. To login with your own URL you should have it setup as a
delegate. Like so:

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID-for-non-SuperUsers
(for openid 1.0)

There's quite a few wordpress plugins that do this for you luckily,
just search for delegate and openid on Google.

Tijs

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richards1052

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Dec 25, 2007, 9:30:17 PM12/25/07
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I DO have WP OpenID plugin installed. Shouldn't the plugin be doing
all this for me? Or have I installed it wrong? I've followed the
installation instructions & it appears to be functioning properly.
Yet I can't set up an identity URL.

Chris Messina

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Dec 25, 2007, 9:48:20 PM12/25/07
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Hi Richard,

The wp-openid plugin doesn't actually create or setup your OpenID URL,
it only allows OTHER people with OpenIDs to login to YOUR blog. I can
see how this would be confusing, and it will either be improved later
on (by including the wp-yadis/delegation functionality) or shipping an
OpenID provider with the plugin.

For now, you'll need to install this plugin to setup your blog as your OpenID:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yadis/

you also could use Stephen Paul Weber's XRDS plugin:

http://singpolyma.net/plugins/xrds/

Both should achieve the same thing for you.

Chris

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richards1052

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Dec 25, 2007, 10:43:05 PM12/25/07
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Chris: Thanks so much for making that clear to me. Someone should let
William Norris know that this isn't terribly clear in the plugin
instructions (unless I missed it). It would be great if there was a
plugin that combined the 2 functions for the blogger & the blog
visitors.

Richard

On Dec 25, 6:48 pm, "Chris Messina" <chris.mess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> The wp-openid plugin doesn't actually create or setup your OpenID URL,
> it only allows OTHER people with OpenIDs to login to YOUR blog. I can
> see how this would be confusing, and it will either be improved later
> on (by including the wp-yadis/delegation functionality) or shipping an
> OpenID provider with the plugin.
>
> For now, you'll need to install this plugin to setup your blog as your OpenID:
>
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yadis/
>
> you also could use Stephen Paul Weber's XRDS plugin:
>
> http://singpolyma.net/plugins/xrds/
>
> Both should achieve the same thing for you.
>
> Chris
>
> > > more:http://www.automatique.nlhttp://roomwareproject.orghttp://wiki.openco...

richards1052

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Dec 25, 2007, 10:53:25 PM12/25/07
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Another question: I'm a WordPress.org user. Can I use WordPress.com
as my OpenID provider even though I'm not a WP.com user?

If so, what should the OpenIDServer & Delegate fields contain?

On Dec 25, 6:48 pm, "Chris Messina" <chris.mess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> The wp-openid plugin doesn't actually create or setup your OpenID URL,
> it only allows OTHER people with OpenIDs to login to YOUR blog. I can
> see how this would be confusing, and it will either be improved later
> on (by including the wp-yadis/delegation functionality) or shipping an
> OpenID provider with the plugin.
>
> For now, you'll need to install this plugin to setup your blog as your OpenID:
>
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yadis/
>
> you also could use Stephen Paul Weber's XRDS plugin:
>
> http://singpolyma.net/plugins/xrds/
>
> Both should achieve the same thing for you.
>
> Chris
>
> > > more:http://www.automatique.nlhttp://roomwareproject.orghttp://wiki.openco...

Tijs Teulings

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Dec 26, 2007, 6:59:40 AM12/26/07
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Good you bring that up. While i think one big-ball-of-DiSo plugin
would be quite handy to get all the functionality we come up with
installed in one go i think all the components should be available as
seperate plugins as well. You might not want or need all of the DiSo
functionality, or you might have your own solution for some parts.

Furthermore it would allow some plugins to evolve faster than others
without being hindered by all the dependencies you are bound to create
with the one big-ball plugin.

Tijs

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Stephen Paul Weber

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Dec 26, 2007, 10:23:14 AM12/26/07
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Plus, as it is, you can choose if you want to have an OpenID server on
your own hosting (considered harmful unless you have an SSL
certificate) or delegate.

I'd never seen the Yadis plugin before -- definitely going to check it
out for inspiration :)

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richards1052

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Dec 26, 2007, 3:40:12 PM12/26/07
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I've managed to get everything going using MyopenID.

I have another question about how this process works. If I sign in to
a blog where I want to make a comment will it automatically fill in
the URL field for the comment? Or does it leave the URL field empty?
If OpenID does fill in the URL, I sometimes use diff. blog URLs for
comments depending on the subject of my comment. I wonder if there
are ways to have 2 separate blog URLs registered or 2 separate
personas to choose from when publishing a blog comment.

richards1052

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Dec 26, 2007, 3:40:23 PM12/26/07
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James D Kirk

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Dec 27, 2007, 12:26:07 AM12/27/07
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If you are logging into a blog that is using the WP-OpenID plugin,
when you go to make a comment, you "shouldn't" see the normal "name,
email, web address" fields. Instead, you should see (in my case,
"James D Kirk is logged in" or something similar to how your profile
for that site considers you.)

You can have more than one OpenID. You simply need to use whatever
that other URL is that you want for the specific comments. You could
do it with MyopenID, another OpenID Provider, or you could do it
yourself if you own the domains and have control of the hosting/file
management.

James.

richards1052

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Dec 27, 2007, 4:22:41 PM12/27/07
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Do you mean that I can have "more than one OpenID" profile? In other
words, if I want the option of using 2 different URL's would I have to
create an entire new profile & associate the 2nd URL with that? I'm
guessing the answer is yes.

richards1052

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Dec 27, 2007, 4:22:49 PM12/27/07
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Do you mean that I can have "more than one OpenID" profile? In other
words, if I want the option of using 2 different URL's would I have to
create an entire new profile & associate the 2nd URL with that? I'm
guessing the answer is yes.

On Dec 26, 9:26 pm, James D Kirk <jamesdk...@gmail.com> wrote:

Steve Ivy

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Dec 27, 2007, 4:24:22 PM12/27/07
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With MyOpenID, you can create multiple profiles at a single address,
then when a site requests authentication, myopenid will let you select
which identity to share.

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Tijs Teulings

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Dec 27, 2007, 4:32:45 PM12/27/07
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Op 27 dec 2007, om 22:22 heeft richards1052 het volgende geschreven:

>
> Do you mean that I can have "more than one OpenID" profile? In other
> words, if I want the option of using 2 different URL's would I have to
> create an entire new profile & associate the 2nd URL with that? I'm
> guessing the answer is yes.
>

more than one account or an openid provider that offers multiple
personas. so yes.

for instance; "Ability to manage multiple personas for different sites
and a whole lot more!"

https://www.myopenid.com/

Chris Messina

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Dec 27, 2007, 4:52:31 PM12/27/07
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Put another way, you can have many OpenID URLs that are completely
separate, many openid urls that are linked (say, via XFN), or any
number of *personas* per OpenID.

For now, MyOpenID probably has the best support for multiple personas
at the end of a SINGLE OpenID URL.

Chris

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