Using OpenID for Smart Clients or Desktop Applications (C#)

[Thomas Broyer]

2006/7/1, Timothy Parez <timothyparez at linux.be>:
> I've used the C# library to enable OpenID for an ASP.NET site.
> But using OpenID would be so usefull for use within a smart client
> application or even a desktop application.
> Has anybody done this, any suggestions on how I could do this ?
>
> I'm willing to put some time in it.

See also:
http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/yadis/2006-April/002394.html

I tried it with some python server code and a Firefox extension and it
seemed to just work. I must have kept it somewhere on my drive if you
want to have a look at it.

One thing you *can't* do is to just extract the Location header from a
3xx response, you have to GET that URL to check that it returns a 200
response (if it's a 3xx, then continue following redirects); except of
course when that URL is the one you sent as the openid.return_to.

In brief: it's not "that" easy, as OpenID hasn't been designed for
this (that's why I'm also looking at DIX), but it's feasible...

-- 
Thomas Broyer