Pie Palace

I’ve been inexplicably intrigued by the idea behind OpenID. OpenID is a protocol for websites to share authentication. If I have a trusted site (let’s call it “PiePalace”), and I want to log in to some other site (let’s call it “LiveJournal”), LiveJournal can use OpenID to ask PiePalace if I am a valid representative of PiePalace.

It’s a nifty idea, but the idea seems to stumble a little on the implementation. I really do want to use this blog to authenticate myself on LiveJournal, but WordPress doesn’t support OpenID. No problem, after a bit of poking around, I’ve discovered that I can delegate the OpenID server with a
<link rel="openid.delegate" href="http://some.server"/> in PiePalace’s header. I can point that at a free OpenId server: videntity.org.

The problem is that LiveJournal’s support of OpenID seems a little sketchy. I can log in, and I can add comments to other people’s responses, but I can’t post on community boards. Which is a little silly.

The answer is pretty simple: I’m just going to have to create an account on LiveJournal. Blech.