Delegate OpenID to Google (not Google Apps)

Question

Can I use my personal website / blog to log in to sites that use openid and delegate my Google account?

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Ok, I was looking for this question on SO, but no good answer. After spending some time, I figured out how to do it. I am going to answer it myself to share it.

Answer 1

You can now delegate the OpenID of your Google account (rather than Google Apps) .

No, this does not use the OpenID demo provider using the App Engine. This is your real google account!

First you need to enable Google Profiles . Try viewing your profile and editing it, there should be an option to set your profile URL. You have two options: either use your Gmail account name (without the @ gmail.com part) as your profile ID, or a random number assigned to you. You decide which one to use. In any case, this id is your identifier for your profile below.

Now add the following HTML to the delegation page:

<link rel="openid2.provider" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud?source=profiles" /> <link rel="openid2.local_id" href="https://profiles.google.com/[YOUR PROFILE ID]" /> 

And that’s all. Now try logging in with your custom URL!

Answer 2

Despite the accepted answer, you should not join Google+ to use Google as a delegate, as you already have a local identifier that is part of your message preceding @ .

Given your existing Google account [e-mail] , you just need the following two links in your head delegate section:

 <link rel="openid2.provider" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud"> <link rel="openid2.local_id" href="https://profiles.google.com/some-name"> 

I just did this and confirmed that it works without connecting to Google +.

Answer 3

OpenID 2.0 for Google Accounts left https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6206245