Archive for category "OpenID"

Surprisingly there's much confusion between "OpenID" and "OAuth". People tend to use them as interchangeable terms or consider OAuth as a kind of a new and improved version of OpenID. In fact they are quite different things. I decided to write down my explanation to have a place to link ...

Apparently I still care about OpenID. So it's going to sound bitter. Sorry for that. What happened is some time ago Google has redesigned its profile pages and along with the redesign changed their URLs from http://www.google.com/profiles/username to http://profiles.google.com/username. As good network citizens they also set up a permanent HTTP ...