OpenID extension

Introduction

This extension provides support for the OpenID 2.0 authentication protocol.

Requirements

• #446 - Support OpenID authentication

Analysis

References

• OpenID foundation - OAuth 2.0 Protocol
• OpenID4Java

Design

• Leverage Restlet security API as much as possible

Implementation

• OpenIdVerifier : extends verifier and can be used to do a remote OpenId Authentication
• RedirectAuthenticator : allows for callback based authentication by the Verifier (e.g. OpenIdVerifier). It sets a cookie to keep track of the orignal resourceRef and once verification is done it does permanent redirection to the orignal resourceRef.

Contributors

• Noelios Technologies - Jérôme Louvel
• Ericsson Research - Martin Svenson
• Ericsson Research - Kristoffer Gronowski