login error

[abc def]

I now get the following when trying to log in with google account (using the button).

Same with a few other login methods/sources...

• OpenID discovery error: HTTP Response status from identity URL host is not 200. Got status 404

[Dustin Lang]

Yes, google account login is broken.  This is a known issue; google stopped providing that service.

[Ben Brian]

Hi Dustin, is there a working way to login in Astrometry.net? I tried every login I have with no luck :(

[Dustin Lang]

yahoo should work

[Ben Brian]

Indeed it works, thank you!

[abc def]

unfortunately, none of the login options work for me.

I tried to setup a yahoo account, but cannot due to lack of cell phone.  Looks like a cell phone is a requirement for new yahoo account.

my google OpenID returns the following error:

OpenID discovery error: No usable OpenID services found for http://google.com/profiles/[MY ID IS HERE]
*I have an account on the server (setup when google was working).
Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help.

Patrick

[Dustin Lang]

Ugh, sorry.  I need to find some time to get the logins working again...  I know it's going to be a pain, because I need to migrate the existing accounts as well.

What about creating a throw-away Live Journal, Wordpress, or Blogger account?

And really, there's not *too* much you gain from having an account, except maybe keeping track of your photos, but there are *much* better sites for that!  (Astrobin.com, eg, tags your photos using our service).

Sorry for the trouble.

--dstn

[abc def]

Made it in! :)

I setup and tried AOL, no luck.

Setting-up livejournal worked.

Thanks for your help.

[Bob Denny]

I'm not an OpenID expert... I have several Google-linked accounts that were/are linked to nova. The tricky thing is that there are many instances of my local astrometry engine out there that are using an API key belonging to one or the other of those Google accounts. Oddly, it appears that your service is providing the solutions for those API keys fine, but I can't get in to look at the images that are being submitted (and their results), so can't help people that are having problems. I may need to look a few days back and trying to find their submissions without logging in is pretty difficult. 

Is there a way to link those accounts to some other OpenID? Or maybe I could create some new accounts and have the old API keys associated with them? Or ?? I can't change the API key that a few hundred instances of PinPoint are using by default (some apps allow entry of a user's API key).

Obviously I don't need to do this too often, ha ha. I just realized this now and it stopped working months ago. I'm finishing up point releases of both programs and I can change the default API keys. Do you have a suggestion for which OpenID provider I should use? I will be making dummy accounts on that service. Yahoo! is undergoing some changes internally 

  -- Bob

[Dustin Lang]

Hi Bob,

Ouch.  I've really got to find some time to get this fixed.  I can probably update the openid account for an astrometry.net user by monkeying with the database directly.  If you can send me a list via email I'll see what I can do.

I don't really have any suggestions for openid provider -- my old yahoo account worked, but I don't know anything about their future plans.

Argh.  Makes me wish I'd just done a simple username/password rather than fancy openid!

--dustin

[Bob Denny]

A list of what? The A.N accounts which are now inaccessible are acpobs...@gmail.com and dc3pi...@gmail.com. 

This OpenID thing is pretty ugly. Google has killed it in favor of OAuth, and I would expect others to follow. Blogger is run by Google so its OpenID is also dead (same 404 errors). MyOpenID has shut down. So have (apparently) some of the other sites that offered OpenID as a magnet service (ClaimID). Yahoo, LiveJournal, and Wordpress are working. I didn't test them all.

I did some research and found Adding Third Party Authentication to Your Web App which gives an example of providing "Login with GitHub" (using GitHub's OAuth to do it). There are lots of implementations of OAuth libraries, etc.