Using Your Blog as an OpenID Provider With Google
If your like me, you love the idea of OpenID. However, over the years, I've signed up for so many different providers, I've lost track of which I've used where. I know, I know, it's completely the opposite of what OpenID was designed for, but hey, what can you do?
Anyways, here's a simple way to make any URL a proxy of sorts for your OpenID requests. Simply add the following two lines (my example is for my Google account, yours will differ) to the head of your site, and voila! You can now start pushing OpenID requests to your URL, and they will be forwarded to the provider you list.
<link rel="openid2.provider openid.server" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud" /> <link rel="openid2.local_id openid.delegate" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/<YOUR PROFILE NAME HERE>" />
Just remember, your OpenID server is different from your delegate. Your delegate is the actual URL you used to put in to OpenID requests before, the server is the base OpenID server.
Here's some common one's I've found:
LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml
Vox: http://www.vox.com/services/openid/server
VeriSign: https://pip.verisignlabs.com/server
MyOpenID http://www.myopenid.com/server
Google: http://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud