7deeds » open-id http://blog.7deeds.com Petros Amiridis - A humble programmer's seven noteworthy actions for the community Mon, 31 May 2010 12:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 When open id doesn’t work http://blog.7deeds.com/2008/10/17/when-open-id-doesnt-work/ http://blog.7deeds.com/2008/10/17/when-open-id-doesnt-work/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:01:09 +0000 Petros http://blog.7deeds.com/?p=59 I really like the idea of open id. In almost all scenarios open id wins. There is one problem though. Availability of the open id server that authenticates you is important. What happens if the server is busy or down?

Even if the site you are trying to log on, also provides the traditional means of username/password authentication, I am sure most of you will not remember those. You have to ask for an email with your password and wait and then log in.

As I write this post www.myopenid.com doesn’t respond and I cannot log on to a certain site that is part of my daily work.

Just a quick note to say that open id is not all roses.

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