Universal identifier for Internet users
It's been a while since my last update on the python3-openid refactoring. Though I still work on it pretty actively, I totally failed at documenting the process as I planned in the beginning. So I came up with a new plan. New plan First of all, I admit to gravely ...
Carpet bombing is a "large aerial bombing done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land." Similarly, carpet testing is done by progressively tossing random data samples at your code without regard for its internal structure, hoping that sufficient amount of data ...
This is the first installment of my diaries on refactoring python3-openid. The post is turning out pretty big so may be I should try doing them more often. Warm-up I started with fixing failing tests, because you can't do refactoring without tests. The root cause of errors was somewhere inside ...
Apparently, there is no obvious choice for an OpenID library in Python 3. In Python 2 there's python-openid which — despite being an ugly over-engineered mess of a code — works and conforms to the spec. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about its independent port to Python3 python3-openid, which ...
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 ...