OpenId for gmail [closed]

Question

Anybody know how to get gmail's OpenID working? All I find is this http://openid-provider.appspot.com/, which gives 302 moved followed by GET not supported on this URL.

I'm assuming this one is broken. Any others?

Answer 1

I think it's not possible. But the opposite (using a gmail account as a openID) i think it's possible.

Answer 2

Update: this no-longer works.

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This works as an OpenID: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id (worked in 2008, 404s in 2016)

It went live on October 30th, 12 days after the question was asked.

See http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/moving-another-step-closer-to-single.html

Answer 3

Update: Some pages do not support https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id format, if they ask for an url, I found a way to do use your Google Account (gmail) as an OpenID.

1. Browse to http://www.google.com/profiles/me and sign in
2. If you don't have a profile, create one.
3. Use http://www.google.com/profiles/yournamehere as the OpenID, it should the url of the browser

Answer 4

Do you want to use your GMail account as an OpenID? Go through Blogspot -- it's tied to your GMail account. Just create a new blog, like "myblog.blogspot.com", and then you can use that for signing in to StackOverflow.

Answer 5

To clarify:

gmail now provides an OpenID to allow gmail account holders to connect to sites that accept OpenID

as far as I know, it is not yet possible to connect to gmail/google accounts as a result of a non-gmail OpenID;

I've put in an edit of the question as it's clearer for people who discover the question as a result of searching the web, that way