In a recent comment John mentioned that the OpenID component doesn’t work with Google Apps OpenIDs. And he was right.

The reason it didn’t work is that Google introduced it’s own OpenID discovery protocol as they faced challenges not addressed by the current version (2.0) of the OpenID standard. And this means such OpenIDs are not recognized by current OpenID libraries. For this reason, Google provides with php-openid-apps-discovery an add-on to the PHP OpenID library.

I integrated this add-on into the OpenID component as an optional feature. You have to enable it with:

public $components = array('Openid' => array('accept_google_apps' => true));

I made it an optional feature because it introduces an additional step to the authentication process: the provided OpenID url is sent to Google to figure out whether it is a Google Apps OpenID. And this makes the authentication process a bit slower. Hence I think you should have a choice whether you want to use this feature.

The new version of the OpenID component doesn’t contain any other new features/bugfixes.

You can download the component from Github.

Enjoy!

In a recent comment John mentioned that the OpenID component doesn’t work with Google Apps OpenIDs. And he was right.

The reason it didn’t work is that Google introduced it’s own OpenID discovery protocol as they faced challenges not addressed by the current version (2.0) of the OpenID standard. And this means such OpenIDs are not recognized by current OpenID libraries. For this reason, Google provides with php-openid-apps-discovery an add-on to the PHP OpenID library.

I integrated this add-on into the OpenID component as an optional feature. You have to enable it with:

public $components = array('Openid' => array('accept_google_apps' => true));

I made it an optional feature because it introduces an additional step to the authentication process: the provided OpenID url is sent to Google to figure out whether it is a Google Apps OpenID. And this makes the authentication process a bit slower. Hence I think you should have a choice whether you want to use this feature.

The new version of the OpenID component doesn’t contain any other new features/bugfixes.

You can download the component from Github.

Enjoy!

In a recent comment John mentioned that the OpenID component doesn’t work with Google Apps OpenIDs. And he was right.

The reason it didn’t work is that Google introduced it’s own OpenID discovery protocol as they faced challenges not addressed by the current version (2.0) of the OpenID standard. And this means such OpenIDs are not recognized by current OpenID libraries. For this reason, Google provides with php-openid-apps-discovery an add-on to the PHP OpenID library.

I integrated this add-on into the OpenID component as an optional feature. You have to enable it with:

public $components = array('Openid' => array('accept_google_apps' => true));

I made it an optional feature because it introduces an additional step to the authentication process: the provided OpenID url is sent to Google to figure out whether it is a Google Apps OpenID. And this makes the authentication process a bit slower. Hence I think you should have a choice whether you want to use this feature.

The new version of the OpenID component doesn’t contain any other new features/bugfixes.

You can download the component from Github.

Enjoy!

When you think of one percent of something, it’s usually not a very big number. But in some cases it is. Like when you’re talking about all of the users of the Internet in the world.

Today, OpenDNS is announcing that over one percent of the world’s Internet users are using its services. It’s the first DNS provider to hit such a milestone, and it means that over 18 million people are using the service to access the web in a way that founder and CEO David Ulevitch calls “safer, faster, smarter and more reliable.“

And that usage number has doubled in just the last 12 months, according to Ulevitch.

That type of growth is important because a new, big time player just entered the ring: Google. But despite the big name, and the right price (free), the results for Google’s DNS offering have varied. And in a test we ran with Google’s own Namebench product, OpenDNS easily beat Google in DNS speed.

The truth is that most users have no idea what any of these DNS services do, or how to go about changing them. So companies like OpenDNS have to rely on partnerships with schools (they have over 25,000), partnerships with large corporations (they have them with many Fortune 500 companies), or parents really worried about what their children are surfing for on the web. But again, the growth is clearly happening, and actually picking up speed, according to Ulevitch, so that’s a very good sign.

An even better sign: OpenDNS has been profitable since 2007.

[photo: flickr/jurvetson]

When you think of one percent of something, it’s usually not a very big number. But in some cases it is. Like when you’re talking about all of the users of the Internet in the world.

Today, OpenDNS is announcing that over one percent of the world’s Internet users are using its services. It’s the first DNS provider to hit such a milestone, and it means that over 18 million people are using the service to access the web in a way that founder and CEO David Ulevitch calls “safer, faster, smarter and more reliable.“

And that usage number has doubled in just the last 12 months, according to Ulevitch.

That type of growth is important because a new, big time player just entered the ring: Google. But despite the big name, and the right price (free), the results for Google’s DNS offering have varied. And in a test we ran with Google’s own Namebench product, OpenDNS easily beat Google in DNS speed.

The truth is that most users have no idea what any of these DNS services do, or how to go about changing them. So companies like OpenDNS have to rely on partnerships with schools (they have over 25,000), partnerships with large corporations (they have them with many Fortune 500 companies), or parents really worried about what their children are surfing for on the web. But again, the growth is clearly happening, and actually picking up speed, according to Ulevitch, so that’s a very good sign.

An even better sign: OpenDNS has been profitable since 2007.

[photo: flickr/jurvetson]

The movie they created from the data, has aided astronomers studying both Saturn's northern and southern aurorae. Given the rarity of such an event, this new footage will likely be the last and best equinox movie that Hubble captures of our planetary neighbor.

The movie they created from the data, has aided astronomers studying both Saturn's northern and southern aurorae. Given the rarity of such an event, this new footage will likely be the last and best equinox movie that Hubble captures of our planetary neighbor.

A CakePHP 1.3 plugin that provides UNIX-like row-level permissions for model data.

A CakePHP 1.3 plugin that provides UNIX-like row-level permissions for model data.

Over 5 years ago, scientists succeeded in teleporting information. Unfortunately, the advance failed to bring us any closer to the Star Trek future we all dream of. Now, researchers in Japan have used the same principles to prove that energy can be teleported too, a development could lead to practical, significant changes in energy distribution.