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For a while now I’ve been toying with using our Socialtext server for more than just the wiki. The problem there is that Socialtext uses apache-perl with what (for me) appears to be a somewhat interesting set of mod_rewrite rules. From what I can tell, it takes whatever you bung in the URL and passes [...]

I was thinking this morning about how prevalant facebook has become (oh god, another facebook post they cried) when compared to something like OpenID. The reasons are pretty obvious, no point in listing them here. But then I was thinking whether it was feasible to use something like facebook as a kind of identity server. [...]