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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nobody replied yet.  +1 on using basic auth for me.  I like having the test openid provider on a separate domain, and this limitation doesn't seem too bad, at least for now..  

Gary


On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Guilherme Salgado wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I have a branch on which I changed the +login page to use OpenID, and
> when developing or testing it uses testopenid.lp.dev as the provider.
> 
> That's a problem for windmill tests because windmill can't cleanly
> switch between domains[1], so I thought of using HTTP basic auth
> (+basiclogin) instead, which works ok in this case as our tests don't
> switch between domains anyway.  Does anybody see that as a problem in
> any way?
> 
> An alternative would be to not use a separate vhost for the testopenid
> provider, but that would make it slightly trickier to disable the test
> provider in production -- when using a separate vhost it's very easy to
> do that.
> 
> [1] I tried really hard to make it possible to login using the test
> OpenID provider in windmill tests and almost succeeded (with a few hacks
> here and there), but in the end I wasn't sure it'd be possible at all,
> so I gave up. <http://trac.getwindmill.com/ticket/279>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Guilherme Salgado <salgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>