ANNOUNCE: OpenID authentication support for MindTouch

[crb]

Hi everyone,

"Beta 1" of the MindTouch OpenID support I have been working on is ready for testing.



It includes

• C# service for authenticating OpenID endpoints using DotNetOpenId 2.x (v3.x, now known as DotNetOpenAuth, does not work on Mono)
• Special page for displaying the selector and bubbling errors up to the UI
• a full refund up to the amount you donated to my moustache fundraiser in the event of it not working

The eventual goal is to inject this into the standard login page when enabled, and pending some good testing, there should be a beta 2 with this support in the next week or so.

Please download this and give it a go, and if you're a MindTouch employee and want to give me a code review, please do that also! It is my hope we can get this into the core for the next+1 release.

Click here for the information and download.

[maphew]

thank you!

[crb]

You're welcome (and also the only person who seems to reply to my posts )

[Guerric]

I replied in IRC!

[crb]

I replied in IRC!

I only look there every few days

[maphew]

I ran into trouble when saving the new openid extension in control panel. It was successfully created but could not be restarted.I'm using MindTouch Core v.9.08. Here is the output of 'Debug: Export Settings':

<service id="46" href="http://yukongis.ca/@api/deki/site/services/46">
  <config /> 
  <date.modified>2009-12-12T00:12:26Z</date.modified> 
  <description>OpenID Authentication</description> 
  <init>native</init> 
  <lasterror>System.Exception: unable to initialize service (blueprint not found) Server stack trace: at MindTouch.Dream.DreamService+<CreateServiceAsync_Helper>d__19.MoveNext () [0x00000] at MindTouch.Dream.Coroutine.Iterate (IEnumerator`1 coroutine, MindTouch.Tasking.TaskEnv env, System.Action`1 completion) [0x00000] Exception rethrown at [0]: at MindTouch.Dream.DreamService+<CreateServiceAsync_Helper>d__19.MoveNext () [0x00000] at MindTouch.Dream.Coroutine.Iterate (IEnumerator`1 coroutine, MindTouch.Tasking.TaskEnv env, System.Action`1 completion) [0x00000]</lasterror> 
  <local deprecated="true">true</local> 
  <preferences /> 
  <sid>sid://mindtouch.com/deki/2009/11/openid</sid> 
  <status>disabled</status> 
  <type>ext</type> 
  <uri /> 
  </service>

[crb]

You sure you have the .dll files in the correct bin directory?

[maphew]

You sure you have the .dll files in the correct bin directory?

It's in the bin directory on the same level as deki directory. Other files in the same bin directory include mindtouch.core.dll, mindtouch.deki.dll. mindtouch.dream.dll, etc, etc. I tried changing the permissions on the openid dlls to 755 and restarting the openid extension service; no change.

This is a multitennant install on a shared web host, so is perhaps not standard layout. I'll ask the admin to restart the deki service and see if that helps.

[crb]

That's where mine is, and it works for me — all I can say at present, sorry!

[maphew]

Restarting the deki service didn't work.
Can anyone else confirm openid works on their setup? It would be helpful to determine if this is peculiar to my host or not. Thanks.