[Plugin: WP-OpenID] Underscore in OpenID accounts

  • ostankin

    (@ostankin)


    18 years ago

    Hi All,

    just installed WordPress in order to migrate away from LiveJournal. To make my blog understand my LJ identity I installed WP OpenID as well, but it doesn’t seem to recognize my LJ username, which is _myx.livejournal.com.

    As far as I can see, it can not recognize it because of the underscore in the beginning. Similarly, it wouldn’t accept usernames with an underscore in the end, like my friend’s: ld_.livejournal.com. Usernames without dashes/underscores or having them in the middle are just fine.

    I was about to conclude there was a bug in WP OpenID, but when I went to the author’s blog (http://willnorris.com/wordpress/wp-login.php) and tried to log in as _myx.livejournal.com, I passed the validation successfully. This means there is just some configuration problem but I can’t find out what it is.

    The next thing I tried is fresh install from scratch, but the problem still doesn’t seem to be resolved. Does anyone have an idea on what might go wrong?

    Everyone is welcome to try: http://ostankin.net/blog/wp-login.php
    WordPress version: 2.5.1, non-localized
    WP OpenID version: 2.1.9
    All other plugins are deactivated.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • cryptosmith

    (@cryptosmith)

    17 years, 12 months ago

    I don’t seem to be able to do anything with your sample site. If I log in with OpenID it says only existing users can do that. When I go to the site looking for ‘register’ I don’t find a registration page. So there’s no way to test anything you’re talking about.

    Thread Starter ostankin

    (@ostankin)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Yes, my mistake – I didn’t enable “Anyone can register” option. Now it’s fixed, you can try again.

    But nevertheless: if you bumped into “non-existent user” problem, this means had successfully passed the authentication. Do you have an underscore in your OpenID name?

    Will Norris

    (@wnorris)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    that’s pretty odd. I’m not at my normal workstation right now, but will take a look at it tomorrow. If you haven’t already, please add a bug report to the DiSo issue tracker so I can follow it up there.

    Thread Starter ostankin

    (@ostankin)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Logged a bugreport: http://code.google.com/p/diso/issues/detail?id=65

    It just occurred to me that, apart from WordPress configuration, hoster information might also be relevant. Unfortunately, I don’t know much, but I supplied all the information I knew and ready to provide more on request.

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