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Asked: 2026-05-19T09:00:08+00:00

I know this has been posted before, but never really answered, I’m using the

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I know this has been posted before, but never really answered, I’m using the DotNetOpenAuth to try and do GoogleID login, and every time I do details = OResponse.GetExtension<ClaimsResponse>(); I always, always, always get back null, I don’t get whats the point of the GoogleID if I can’t get back any information, I would think at the very least I would get an email address, so I could associate it other login information in my databse. I just don’t understand could really use some help, Im probably just looking at openID in the wrong way.

I’m using ASP.NET and looking to use openID/Facebook as my sole means of logging in users, I really don’t want to mess with membership roles, or extra junk that ASP.NET likes to add.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, this has been asked and answered many times. Google does support AX. But it ignores any attributes marked as “optional”. So if you want the email address, you have to say that email address is a required attribute.

    The ClaimsResponse extension you’re checking for isn’t AX — it’s Simple Registration. But if you have AXFetchAsSregTransform behavior turned on (highly recommended) then it allows you to just use ClaimsRequest and ClaimsResponse exclusively, and DotNetOpenAuth will automatically translate to and from AX behind-the-scenes for you.

    Alternatively, you can use FetchReqest and FetchResponse to speak AX directly to Google.

    But (and I can’t hammer this hard enough), do not use the email address as the user’s unique identifier!!! Instead, use the IAuthenticationResponse.ClaimedIdentifier string as the unique identifier. Email address should generally be considered just a helpful hint that can be used to prefill a registration form. You shouldn’t even trust that the email address you get is really under the user’s control (that’s one reason why it shouldn’t be considered their unique id) since the Provider can lie to you. Google and Yahoo are two providers that promise (if you choose to trust them) that the email addresses have been verified, so you can skip the email validation step for users from them if you wish.

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