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Re:Your Gmail Account is Now An OpenID by trevorturk on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:14PM (#347756)
I'm having trouble finding the URL scheme to use... or does this only support signing in with [email protected]?
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Re:Your Gmail Account is Now An OpenID by tlrobinson on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @09:05PM (#348288)
Apparently Google decided they were special, and requires every relying party to implement custom crap for detecting gmail.com email addresses.

They claim that once it's stable they'll open it up so you'll be able to use "gmail.com" as your identifier in any RP:

http://openid.net/pipermail/general/2008-October/006169.html

Embrace: kinda

Extend: you betcha

Extinguish: ...

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Re:Your Gmail Account is Now An OpenID by jacobscott on Thursday October 30, 2008 @04:09AM (#348549)
Isn't this just temporary? I mean, shouldn't we wait like a month before complaining?
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Re:Your Gmail Account is Now An OpenID by dnordberg on Thursday October 30, 2008 @04:35AM (#348559)
Maybe better to use http://openid-provider.appspot.com/username which has been available for sometime now..
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