Archive for January, 2009

Yahoo/OpenID Confusion

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

The following are valid OpenID using Yahoo:

  • http://me.yahoo.com/wdr1
  • http://yahoo.com/

The following is an invalid OpenID:

  • http://yahoo.com/wdr1

When you get your OpenID from Yahoo, it tells you the ‘http://me.yahoo.com/wdr1′ bit is created.

A bit later, when you access your first OpenID site, and click “Yahoo”, it typically defaults to ‘http://yahoo.com/’.

Remembering the creation process, you add ‘wdr1′ to the end, only to get an error.

Is this something common to OpenID providers or unique to Yahoo’s implementation?