Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: > In article <87haxahh51....@benfinney.id.au>, > Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > As someone who uses OpenID, what can I read about why OAuth is better? > > OpenID is for people who worry about things like how OpenID is different > from OAuth. Oauth is for people who have no idea what OAuth is and just > want to be able to log into web sites using their Facebook account.
So, if I want to be free to choose an identity provider I trust, and it's not Facebook or Google or Twitter or other privacy-hostile services, how does OAuth help me do that? What can I read for how to become an OAuth user that doesn't assume I want a “social networking” provider involved in my identity transactions? -- \ “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his | `\ salary depends upon his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair, | _o__) 1935 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
