Setting up an OpenID delegate for Verisign

ben
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:45:19 +0000

OpenID, the "decentralized standard for user authentication and access control" has a nice feature whereby you can use your own domain as your OpenID login.

Basically you put a few lines of HTML in your tag, and any OpenID supporting basically treats it as a redirect.

I have a Verisign PIP OpenID account, to login to various sites (such as the Stackoverflow "family" of sites), but I can use my own domain (dbrweb.co.uk) as a login.. I could run my own OpenID "endpoint", but this is much simpler, and more secure (as Versign will do a better job than I could)

Anyway, a bit of searching later and I came across Verisign PIP OpenID Delegation Code, which contains the following code..






I replaced username with my PIP username, changed the self-closing tags /> to HTML strict-compaible > and ended up with the following tag:


dbrweb







Simple.