Note on delegation of Google profile openids

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http://www.google.com/profiles/will.uther 2009-11-27 21:54:52 -05:00 committed by Joey Hess
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@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Now that google supports using thier profiles as OpenIDs, that can be used
directly to sign into ikiwiki. Just use, for example, directly to sign into ikiwiki. Just use, for example,
<http://www.google.com/profiles/joeyhess> . Tested and it works. --[[Joey]] <http://www.google.com/profiles/joeyhess> . Tested and it works. --[[Joey]]
> This seems to work fine if you use the profile directly as an OpenID. It doesn't seem to work with delegation. From that I can see, this is a deliberate decision by Google for security reasons. See the response [here](http://groups.google.com/group/google-federated-login-api/browse_thread/thread/825067789537568c/23451a68c8b8b057?show_docid=23451a68c8b8b057). -- [[Will]]
## historical discussion ## historical discussion
when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error: when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error: