OpenIDs login now available on ShiftEdit

Posted by Jonathan
March 23, 2008

ShiftEdit has been getting some great press this weekend thanks to the writers at Ajaxian and Profy (thanks! :)). Profy’s review, in particular, brought up a lot of great points I’ll address in future blog posts (it’s 1am, I’m tired ;)) but one thing they both mentioned, was the lack of an OpenID login on ShiftEdit.

We initially decided to launch with just Facebook and MSN/Live/Hotmail logins because with 64 million and 380 million users respectively, we thought that should cover just about anyone wanting to try our service But I think these writers both correctly identified the need to support the OpenID community. So I burned through a few cans of Gingerale, found a great OpenID library, yada yada yada, and ShiftEdit now supports OpenID login.

Long live the open Web!

UPDATE: I had some reports that Yahoo OpenID wasn’t working with my first implementation. Looks like the library I had used didn’t support the last OpenID 2.0 protocol. So I switched over to using the ExtremeSwank library. It has a better name anyhow Please try it out and let me know!

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Comment Number:: 1
Written by:: andre
Posted on:: March 23, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Doesn’t seem to be working 100%. I just tried logging in with my Yahoo based OpenID and it did nothing… not sure why.

Comment Number:: 2
Written by:: Jonathan
Posted on:: March 23, 2008 at 1:44 pm

I think the library I used doesn’t support OpenID 2.0 standard. I’ll pop in another one

Comment Number:: 3
Written by:: Jonathan
Posted on:: March 23, 2008 at 10:49 pm

It’s working with Yahoo OpenID now Have fun!

Comment Number:: 4
Written by:: andre
Posted on:: March 24, 2008 at 8:34 pm

Agreed… works really smoothly now! Woot for bug fixes.

Comment Number:: 5
Written by:: Jonathan
Posted on:: March 24, 2008 at 10:11 pm

I think the load balancing has broke it again

Comment Number:: 6
Written by:: Jonathan
Posted on:: March 24, 2008 at 10:41 pm

I fixed it…AGAIN. OpenID is a harsh mistress

Comment Number:: 7
Written by:: Shel HOltz
Posted on:: April 23, 2008 at 11:33 am

I was able to login using my OpenID this morning in my hotel room. Now that I’m at the conference, I can’t get connected. I am able to go to the ClaimID.com site and log in just fine; evidently it’s just the connection between ShiftEdit and ClaimID that’s having a problem.

Comment Number:: 8
Written by:: Melissa
Posted on:: May 23, 2008 at 7:22 pm

Hi, I have been trying to use my livejournal account as the address to login, but I keep getting a “openid reject your request”, even though I have authorized from livejournal’s end. If you can provide any help it would be most appreciated.

Comment Number:: 9
Written by:: Steve
Posted on:: May 27, 2008 at 8:11 pm

Tried using a Yubikey delegated through my personal website, and I get into an endless loop of login.

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