Protected entries
March 1st, 2008I decided that many of my posts and entries should not be open for everybody to read, the same way as the photos. And since the posts almost always include photos from Flickr you would need to log in anyway.
If you signed up for an account on Flickr/Yahoo! so that you could watch all my photos you can use that account to log in here. This is done through something called OpenID which Yahoo supports, you just needs to activate it. This you do here: http://openid.yahoo.com. Your OpenID is an identity that can be used throughout the web so that you have the same identity on all sites you use it on.
When you have activated your OpenID on Yahoo! you get an URL or link to your identity, something like: me.yahoo.com/a/[lots of stuff] and you can create your own URL, like: me.yahoo.com/[your name] or http://www.flickr.com/photos/[user name]. This URL is your identifier. If you are using Yahoo you need to out yahoo.com in the OpenID field when you want to log in for instance on gaute.vetsj.com. Then you will be redirected to a page where you need to authorize gaute.vetsj.com to be able to access your profile and choose which URL or identity you want to use. Then you are redirected back to gaute.vetsj.com and are logged in as this. And every time you want to log in you just put in yahoo.com in the OpenID box.
When that is done you just need to wait until I have noticed that you are registered and I allow you to read all items I post here.
Of course you can use your OpenID on any other site that allows it.
If you don’t want to use Yahoo!’s OpenID you might want to try one of the others (or you might allready have one somewhere else). Note that on most other providers you put your identity url in the OpenID box, ie: yourname.myopenid.com and not just myopenid.com like with yahoo.com.
- gaute
Tags: flickr, openid, www
March 14th, 2008 at 19:43
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