Comments on: Google Removes OpenID Whitelist Requirement http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/31/google-removes-openid-whitelist-requirement/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:39:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kevin Yank http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/31/google-removes-openid-whitelist-requirement/comment-page-1/#comment-818636 Kevin Yank Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:02:10 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3146#comment-818636 I’m relieved that Google is backing off its modifications to OpenID, but I agree: I won’t take their OpenID support seriously until they become a relying party. Yes, the fact that OpenID is not a solution for desktop and other non-browser clients is an issue, but other services work around this by letting you log into their Web application (with OpenID) and retrieve a password or other secret key for use in configuring a non-Web client. I’m relieved that Google is backing off its modifications to OpenID, but I agree: I won’t take their OpenID support seriously until they become a relying party.

Yes, the fact that OpenID is not a solution for desktop and other non-browser clients is an issue, but other services work around this by letting you log into their Web application (with OpenID) and retrieve a password or other secret key for use in configuring a non-Web client.

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