@@ -214,5 +214,18 @@ You can support it in your app by changing #open_id_authentication { :login => 'nickname', :email => 'email', :display_name => 'fullname' } end +Attribute Exchange OpenID Extension +=================================== + +Some OpenID providers also support the OpenID AX (attribute exchange) protocol for exchanging identity information between endpoints. See more: http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-exchange-1_0.html + +Accessing AX data is very similar to the Simple Registration process, described above -- just add the URI identifier for the AX field to your :optional or :required parameters. For example: + + authenticate_with_open_id(identity_url, + :required => [ :email, 'http://schema.openid.net/birthDate' ]) do |result, identity_url, registration| + +This would provide the sreg data for :email, and the AX data for 'http://schema.openid.net/birthDate' + + Copyright (c) 2007 David Heinemeier Hansson, released under the MIT license \ No newline at end of file README eb3698d982693bb8df2a8248aff8d775b22d6f61 Peat Bakke peat@peat.org http://github.com/rails/open_id_authentication/commit/e2b2ae5a04aa61a0d52e591b2ef702840c8f5ed3 e2b2ae5a04aa61a0d52e591b2ef702840c8f5ed3 2009-01-12T13:14:00-08:00 2009-01-12T12:11:15-08:00 Added short section for AX data requests 4308f4fb158472ef011f5d1b2718269b92f6457f Joshua Peek josh@joshpeek.com