Blogger Spider Web Log Readers Unable To Comment, Using Openid Accounts Hosted Past Times Wordpress
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
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We're seeing a scattered collection of reports, mentioning problems publishing comments, using OpenID authentication.
This employment appears to travel related to the Blogger rollout of SSL support, for our blogs, which is currently inwards progress. SSL, or Secure Socket Layer, represents the adjacent stride inwards weblog / website security - a stride which the Internet community has been taking, for many years.
Blogger has been using SSL (aka "HTTPS" login), inwards their dashboard, for several years.
Blogger weblog owners accept been asking, for years, that Blogger back upward SSL inwards BlogSpot (and our custom domains).
FaceBook upgraded to SSL, inwards 2013 - too saw problems amongst Blogger content.
Last year, FaceBook upgraded to SSL. Blogger weblog owners, who were likewise FaceBook members, watched their Walls, which contained HTTP links to their Blogger blogs, demo the our blogs may (optionally) back upward the SSL protocol - too non confuse FaceBook members, who postal service links to our blogs. To avoid the "mixed mode" warnings, which would confuse our readers, they are upgrading all Blogger processes, including OpenID authentication, to back upward SSL.
The Blogger upgrade has exposed a WordPress inconsistency.
Just every bit FaceBook upgrading to SSL helped to effort Blogger to upgrade, thus is Blogger upgrading to SSL exposing an inconsistency inwards WordPress role of SSL, for OpenID authentication.
WordPress needs to banking venture correspond their OpenID servers.
So now, Blogger has to await for WordPress to autumn into step, consistently. Until WordPress upgrades their OpenID server, people who desire to role a WordPress OpenID account, to comment on our blogs, volition accept to conduct "OpenID", instead of "WordPress" - too then larn inwards the WordPress OpenID URL, as
This employment appears to travel related to the Blogger rollout of SSL support, for our blogs, which is currently inwards progress. SSL, or Secure Socket Layer, represents the adjacent stride inwards weblog / website security - a stride which the Internet community has been taking, for many years.
Blogger has been using SSL (aka "HTTPS" login), inwards their dashboard, for several years.
https://www.blogger.comThat's a secure Blogger login. The employment amongst Blogger using SSL inwards our blogs is that moving to SSL requires care, to avoid confusing our readers. Lack of aid volition dependent area our readers to the well known "mixed mode" warnings.
This site has insecure content.
Only secure content is displayed.
Firefox has blocked content that isn't secure.These are several examples of what were normal, years ago, on many websites. Blogger does non desire our readers dependent area to needless confusion, from these warnings.
Blogger weblog owners accept been asking, for years, that Blogger back upward SSL inwards BlogSpot (and our custom domains).
FaceBook upgraded to SSL, inwards 2013 - too saw problems amongst Blogger content.
Last year, FaceBook upgraded to SSL. Blogger weblog owners, who were likewise FaceBook members, watched their Walls, which contained HTTP links to their Blogger blogs, demo the our blogs may (optionally) back upward the SSL protocol - too non confuse FaceBook members, who postal service links to our blogs. To avoid the "mixed mode" warnings, which would confuse our readers, they are upgrading all Blogger processes, including OpenID authentication, to back upward SSL.
The Blogger upgrade has exposed a WordPress inconsistency.
Just every bit FaceBook upgrading to SSL helped to effort Blogger to upgrade, thus is Blogger upgrading to SSL exposing an inconsistency inwards WordPress role of SSL, for OpenID authentication.
The employment inwards my representative (and peradventure inwards others every bit well) seems to travel that https://yourblog.wordpress.com is ship for verification to the OpenId server. This is what I could figure out from the URL. If you lot than manually supersede HTTPS amongst HTTP, it works.This comment suggests that WordPress, which inwards full general is using SSL security, has an OpenID server that has non been upgraded.
WordPress needs to banking venture correspond their OpenID servers.
So now, Blogger has to await for WordPress to autumn into step, consistently. Until WordPress upgrades their OpenID server, people who desire to role a WordPress OpenID account, to comment on our blogs, volition accept to conduct "OpenID", instead of "WordPress" - too then larn inwards the WordPress OpenID URL, as
HTTP://whatever.wordpress.comAnd await for WordPress to upgrade their server.