[OSM-talk] User diary enhancements, subscriptions, Facebook/Twitter integration

[Kai Krueger]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 
> Well I'd say that OpenID is enough. And there's an OpenID branch of the 
> Rails Port that already goes so some length supporting that.
> 
Yes, there is a fully functional OpenID implementation.
http://openid.dev.openstreetmap.org/

However, it currently doesn't seem to have the political support necessary
to get it merged. But perhaps if enough people express their interest this
might change.

It currently only supports OpenID, so it doesn't work with Twitter or
Facebook, as they have implemented their own login protocol, however it does
work with things like gmail and yahoo mail and any other provider supporting
OpenID, which is quite a number.

It would be possible to support login via twitter as well, should the OpenID
branch ever get deployed, as it uses an authentication based on OAuth, which
shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

Facebook is imho less likely, as as far as I know, it uses a proprietary
protocol and so I would be less enthused to support that.

Kai


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