Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass

Posted by justlearning on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @08:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Anyone facing issues logging in using clickpass. I have been trying to login using a google account and All I get is "Unknown" on HN. This is the second time, I have faced this last 6 months, I am writing this because my session is 'saved' on my other browser.

I wasn't able to overcome the earlier error I got 5 months back, in the end used a new userid/openid to login. Later I found that clickpass had done some kind of reset and I had to manually tinker with the url. I could do that because I was using claimid as a openid url. This time with a Google account, I couldn't figure out. I tried changing to https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id to no avail.

I also have to mention- I wrote couple of times to the "send feedback" at clickpass. I am still waiting 5 months down for a response.

Anyone? with similar experiences?

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Re:Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass by pg on Thursday June 11, 2009 @12:31AM (#652267)

I fixed a bug Arc server code a few days ago and the fix broke something in Clickpass's code. I'll get someone to fix it.

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Re:Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass by pg on Thursday June 11, 2009 @12:49AM (#652281)

Ok, looks like I found a hack that worked. Clickpass logins should now work again.

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Re:Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass by justlearning on Thursday June 11, 2009 @12:50AM (#652282)

Thanks PG!!

do you have any stats on what percent of users login with clickpass?

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Re:Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass by pg on Thursday June 11, 2009 @12:53AM (#652284)

I have no idea, unfortunately. These look like normal logins to our code.

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Re:Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass by bostondjango on Thursday June 11, 2009 @12:19AM (#652258)

I am having the same issue and its EXTREMELY frustrating. Using an old account to post. It's definitely not my openid provider, as I'm using it to authenticate to Stackoverflow no problem.

This is particularly distressful as I was right about to use clickpass and django for a site I'm launching. Here's hoping it's an issue with Arc and not CP.

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Re:Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass by johnnybgoode on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @08:22PM (#652066)

Unfortunately for you, I don't think many people here use Clickpass to log in. In fact, I'd be surprised if more than 1% of HNers used it.

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Re:Ask HN: logging in with openid - clickpass by justlearning on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @08:59PM (#652111)

I thought so. But didn't think it as low as 1%. I was more towards 20%. do we have any stats?

I started using clickpass after multitude times of forgetting password. I have been a HN user since early days, but never participated. So I used to upvote to save links my bookmarks. ..and then one day, i thought fk it(we'll do it clickpass!) and used my google account to login.

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