Hi guys I’ve set up an openID login system – just like the one we have here on stackoverflow and on the backend I’m using JanRains libraries. It was working fine until all of a sudden – people can’t login using a google or yahoo openid. ITs constantly failingt – instead however any other regular openid seems to work fine. WHats going on here – I tried to trace the error and for some reason its unable to retrieve the authentication Service – technically for those familiar with JanRain in the AUth/OpenID/Consumer file on line 339 or around that in the Auth_OpenID_Consumer :: begin function:
$endpoint = $disco->getNextService($this->discoverMethod,
$this->consumer->fetcher);
The endpoint is returned null for anyone logging in with a google account – however other non google/non yahoo accounts log in.. whats going on here – my site is now live 🙁 and I’m already regretting having implemented the openID thing….I first tried using Zends openID library – that failed big time and so I switched to JanRain – it worked for a while but now its failed me too….
Sometimes this is a symptom of your system’s HTTPS-fetcher being busted, or improperly configured CA certs, since both Google and Yahoo are HTTPS-only IIRC.