OpenID on LJ?

[ninetydegrees]

"LiveJournal is currently up, but still under a DDOS attack. Due to some aspects of DDoS protection system, LiveJournal is temporarily disabling support for third party services (Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.)." [1:25 pm GMT (Tuesday, December 6)]

Would that affect OpenID logging as well?

Comments

[rebelsheart]

I suspect yes, though OpenID login wasn't working for me during testing while Twitter was.

[afuna]

Hm, it's a different system so not directly (unless they've tied the two together somehow). The DDOS probably will mean some trouble logging in though -- we need to connect to LJ for that so it can confirm that $user is who $user says they are.

[rebelsheart]

from the standpoint of LJ support, I've seen a number of two types of reports prior to this announcement while the DDoS is going on:

1) LiveJournal users can't log in to blogger and related services using OpenID
2) OpenID users from any service can't log in to LiveJournal.

[ninetydegrees]

We have some similar reports here. I haven't been able to log in to LJ with my OpenID.

[pauamma]

Could be mitigation, could be the DDoS itself.

[afuna]

Oh true, I was just thinking of OpenID users from the POV of users on DW, not LJ. So anyway -- this!