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The end of OpenID?

The end of OpenID?

Posted Feb 3, 2011 14:11 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: The end of OpenID? by eru
Parent article: The end of OpenID?

Implementing OpenID authentication is not that hard, I got it going in an afternoon. Harder is all the user interface to allow the management of identities and stuff. Just more of the sort of obnoxious HTML form stuff that gets so tiresome after a while. That's the piece that I never quite found the time to finish.


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The end of OpenID?

Posted Feb 5, 2011 3:53 UTC (Sat) by SkyGuy (subscriber, #60773) [Link]

CGI::Application is a very simple and easy way to implement web forms without too many headaches. David Blank-Edelman's articles on CGI::Application helped me implement a moderately complicated web form without too much effort:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2009-08/pdfs/bla...

http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2009-10/pdfs/bla...

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