How to address OpenID providers downtime?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/140613

  •  02-07-2019
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Question

OpenID is all good... UNTIL the provider goes down. At that point you're potentially locked out of EVERYTHING (since you jumped on the bandwagon and applied OpenID everywhere you could).

This question came up because I can't, for the life of me, login with my myopenid.com provider. :-(

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Solution

The fix is for your OpenID site to accept multiple OpenIDs per user account. Something that the spec recommends.

OTHER TIPS

This is why I use my personal website to delegate OpenID services to another site. If WordPress.com (my current chosen provider) goes down, I just switch the code in my site to point at a different provider. A few seconds and I'm back up and running.

The answer is simple. Store an email for the user. Have your own login mechanism. Making OpenId optional is the straight forward answer to this.

Unfortunately some sites are closed minded about OpenId.

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