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      <p>
<a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> support for Relying Parties (aka
Consumers).
</p>
<p>
This module documents the main interface with the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> consumer library. The only part of the
library which has to be used and isn&#8216;t documented in full here is the
store required to create an <a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> instance.
</p>
<h1>OVERVIEW</h1>
<p>
The <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> identity verification process most
commonly uses the following steps, as visible to the user of this library:
</p>
<ol>
<li>The user enters their <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> into a field on
the consumer&#8216;s site, and hits a login button.

</li>
<li>The consumer site discovers the user&#8216;s <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider using the <a
href="Yadis.html">Yadis</a> protocol.

</li>
<li>The consumer site sends the browser a redirect to the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider. This is the authentication
request as described in the <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a>
specification.

</li>
<li>The <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider&#8216;s site sends the
browser a redirect back to the consumer site. This redirect contains the
provider&#8216;s response to the authentication request.

</li>
</ol>
<p>
The most important part of the flow to note is the consumer&#8216;s site
must handle two separate HTTP requests in order to perform the full
identity check.
</p>
<h1>LIBRARY DESIGN</h1>
<p>
This consumer library is designed with that flow in mind. The goal is to
make it as easy as possible to perform the above steps securely.
</p>
<p>
At a high level, there are two important parts in the consumer library. The
first important part is this module, which contains the interface to
actually use this library. The second is openid/store/interface.rb, which
describes the interface to use if you need to create a custom method for
storing the state this library needs to maintain between requests.
</p>
<p>
In general, the second part is less important for users of the library to
know about, as several implementations are provided which cover a wide
variety of situations in which consumers may use the library.
</p>
<p>
The <a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> class has methods corresponding to
the actions necessary in each of steps 2, 3, and 4 described in the
overview. Use of this library should be as easy as creating an <a
href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> instance and calling the methods
appropriate for the action the site wants to take.
</p>
<p>
This library automatically detects which version of the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> protocol should be used for a transaction
and constructs the proper requests and responses. Users of this library do
not need to worry about supporting multiple protocol versions; the library
supports them implicitly. Depending on the version of the protocol in use,
the <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> transaction may be more secure. See
the <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> specifications for more
information.
</p>
<h1>SESSIONS, STORES, AND STATELESS MODE</h1>
<p>
The <a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> object keeps track of two types of
state:
</p>
<ol>
<li>State of the user&#8216;s current authentication attempt. Things like the
identity URL, the list of endpoints discovered for that URL, and in case
where some endpoints are unreachable, the list of endpoints already tried.
This state needs to be held from <a
href="Consumer.html#M000302">Consumer.begin</a>() to <a
href="Consumer.html#M000304">Consumer.complete</a>(), but it is only
applicable to a single session with a single user agent, and at the end of
the authentication process (i.e. when an OP replies with either
<tt>id_res</tt>. or <tt>cancel</tt> it may be discarded.

</li>
<li>State of relationships with servers, i.e. shared secrets (associations)
with servers and nonces seen on signed messages. This information should
persist from one session to the next and should not be bound to a
particular user-agent.

</li>
</ol>
<p>
These two types of storage are reflected in the first two arguments of <a
href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a>&#8216;s constructor, <tt>session</tt> and
<tt>store</tt>. <tt>session</tt> is a dict-like object and we hope your web
framework provides you with one of these bound to the user agent.
<tt>store</tt> is an instance of <a href="Store.html">Store</a>.
</p>
<p>
Since the store does hold secrets shared between your application and the
<a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider, you should be careful about
how you use it in a shared hosting environment. If the filesystem or
database permissions of your web host allow strangers to read from them, do
not store your data there! If you have no safe place to store your data,
construct your consumer with nil for the store, and it will operate only in
stateless mode. Stateless mode may be slower, put more load on the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider, and trusts the provider to keep
you safe from replay attacks.
</p>
<p>
Several store implementation are provided, and the interface is fully
documented so that custom stores can be used as well. See the documentation
for the <a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> class for more information on
the interface for stores. The implementations that are provided allow the
consumer site to store the necessary data in several different ways,
including several SQL databases and normal files on disk.
</p>
<h1>IMMEDIATE MODE</h1>
<p>
In the flow described above, the user may need to confirm to the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider that it&#8216;s ok to disclose
his or her identity. The provider may draw pages asking for information
from the user before it redirects the browser back to the consumer&#8216;s
site. This is generally transparent to the consumer site, so it is
typically ignored as an implementation detail.
</p>
<p>
There can be times, however, where the consumer site wants to get a
response immediately. When this is the case, the consumer can put the
library in immediate mode. In immediate mode, there is an extra response
possible from the server, which is essentially the server reporting that it
doesn&#8216;t have enough information to answer the question yet.
</p>
<h1>USING THIS LIBRARY</h1>
<p>
Integrating this library into an application is usually a relatively
straightforward process. The process should basically follow this plan:
</p>
<p>
Add an <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> login field somewhere on your
site. When an <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> is entered in that field
and the form is submitted, it should make a request to the your site which
includes that <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> URL.
</p>
<p>
First, the application should instantiate a <a
href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> with a session for per-user state and
store for shared state using the store of choice.
</p>
<p>
Next, the application should call the <tt><a
href="Consumer.html#M000302">begin</a></tt> method of <a
href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> instance. This method takes the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> URL as entered by the user. The <tt><a
href="Consumer.html#M000302">begin</a></tt> method returns a <a
href="Consumer/CheckIDRequest.html">CheckIDRequest</a> object.
</p>
<p>
Next, the application should call the redirect_url method on the <a
href="Consumer/CheckIDRequest.html">CheckIDRequest</a> object. The
parameter <tt>return_to</tt> is the URL that the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> server will send the user back to after
attempting to verify his or her identity. The <tt>realm</tt> parameter is
the URL (or URL pattern) that identifies your web site to the user when he
or she is authorizing it. Send a redirect to the resulting URL to the
user&#8216;s browser.
</p>
<p>
That&#8216;s the first half of the authentication process. The second half
of the process is done after the user&#8216;s <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> Provider sends the user&#8216;s browser a
redirect back to your site to <a href="Consumer.html#M000304">complete</a>
their login.
</p>
<p>
When that happens, the user will contact your site at the URL given as the
<tt>return_to</tt> URL to the redirect_url call made above. The request
will have several query parameters added to the URL by the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider as the information necessary to
finish the request.
</p>
<p>
Get a <a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> instance with the same session
and store as before and call its <a
href="Consumer.html#M000304">complete</a>() method, passing in all the
received query arguments and URL currently being handled.
</p>
<p>
There are multiple possible return types possible from that method. These
indicate the whether or not the login was successful, and include any
additional information appropriate for their type.
</p>

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      <a href="#M000315">association_manager</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000302">begin</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000303">begin_without_discovery</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000310">cleanup_last_requested_endpoint</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000312">cleanup_session</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000304">complete</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000318">complete_cancel</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000319">complete_error</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000321">complete_id_res</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000317">complete_invalid</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000320">complete_setup_needed</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000313">discover</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000311">discovery_manager</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000316">handle_idres</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000308">last_requested_endpoint</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000309">last_requested_endpoint=</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000314">negotiator</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000301">new</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000300">openid1_return_to_claimed_id_name</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000299">openid1_return_to_claimed_id_name=</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000298">openid1_return_to_nonce_name</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000297">openid1_return_to_nonce_name=</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000305">session_get</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000307">session_key</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
      <a href="#M000306">session_set</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;
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      Module <a href="Consumer/Response.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::Response</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/AssociationManager.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::AssociationManager</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/CancelResponse.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::CancelResponse</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/CheckIDRequest.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::CheckIDRequest</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/DiffieHellmanSHA1Session.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::DiffieHellmanSHA1Session</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/DiffieHellmanSHA256Session.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::DiffieHellmanSHA256Session</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/DiffieHellmanSession.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::DiffieHellmanSession</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/DiscoveredServices.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::DiscoveredServices</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/DiscoveryManager.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::DiscoveryManager</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/FailureResponse.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::FailureResponse</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/IdResHandler.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::IdResHandler</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/NoEncryptionSession.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::NoEncryptionSession</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/SetupNeededResponse.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::SetupNeededResponse</a><br />
Class <a href="Consumer/SuccessResponse.html" class="link">OpenID::Consumer::SuccessResponse</a><br />

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          <td class="context-item-name">SUCCESS</td>
          <td>=</td>
          <td class="context-item-value">:success</td>
          <td width="3em">&nbsp;</td>
          <td class="context-item-desc">
Code returned when either the of the OpenID::OpenIDConsumer.begin_auth or
OpenID::OpenIDConsumer.complete_auth methods return successfully.

</td>
        </tr>
        <tr class="top-aligned-row context-row">
          <td class="context-item-name">FAILURE</td>
          <td>=</td>
          <td class="context-item-value">:failure</td>
          <td width="3em">&nbsp;</td>
          <td class="context-item-desc">
Code OpenID::OpenIDConsumer.complete_auth returns when the value it
received indicated an invalid login.

</td>
        </tr>
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          <td class="context-item-name">CANCEL</td>
          <td>=</td>
          <td class="context-item-value">:cancel</td>
          <td width="3em">&nbsp;</td>
          <td class="context-item-desc">
Code returned by OpenIDConsumer.complete_auth when the user cancels the
operation from the server.

</td>
        </tr>
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          <td class="context-item-name">SETUP_NEEDED</td>
          <td>=</td>
          <td class="context-item-value">:setup_needed</td>
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Code returned by OpenID::OpenIDConsumer.complete_auth when the
OpenIDConsumer instance is in immediate mode and ther server sends back a
URL for the user to login with.

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            onclick="popupCode('Consumer.src/M000301.html');return false;">
          <span class="method-name">new</span><span class="method-args">(session, store)</span>
          </a>
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          <p>
Initialize a <a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> instance.
</p>
<p>
You should create a <a href="Consumer.html#M000301">new</a> instance of the
<a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a> object with every HTTP request that
handles <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> transactions.
</p>
<p>
session: the session object to use to store request information. The
session should behave like a hash.
</p>
<p>
store: an object that implements the interface in <a
href="Store.html">Store</a>.
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          <span class="method-name">openid1_return_to_claimed_id_name</span><span class="method-args">()</span>
          </a>
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          <p>
See <a href="Consumer.html#M000299">openid1_return_to_claimed_id_name=</a>
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          <span class="method-name">openid1_return_to_claimed_id_name=</span><span class="method-args">(query_arg_name)</span>
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Set the name of the query parameter that this library will use to thread
the requested URL through an <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> 1
transaction (for use when verifying discovered information). It will be
appended to the return_to URL.
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See <a href="Consumer.html#M000297">openid1_return_to_nonce_name=</a>
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          <span class="method-name">openid1_return_to_nonce_name=</span><span class="method-args">(query_arg_name)</span>
          </a>
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Set the name of the query parameter that this library will use to thread a
nonce through an <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> 1 transaction. It will
be appended to the return_to URL.
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          <span class="method-name">begin</span><span class="method-args">(openid_identifier, anonymous=false)</span>
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          <p>
Start the <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> authentication process. See
steps 1-2 in the overview for the <a href="Consumer.html">Consumer</a>
class.
</p>
<p>
user_url: Identity URL given by the user. This method performs a textual
transformation of the URL to try and make sure it is normalized. For
example, a user_url of example.com will be normalized to <a
href="http://example.com">example.com</a>/ normalizing and resolving any
redirects the server might issue.
</p>
<p>
anonymous: A boolean value. Whether to make an anonymous request of the <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> provider. Such a request does not ask for
an authorization assertion for an <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a>
identifier, but may be used with extensions to pass other data. e.g.
&quot;I don&#8216;t care who you are, but I&#8216;d like to know your time
zone.&quot;
</p>
<p>
Returns a <a href="Consumer/CheckIDRequest.html">CheckIDRequest</a> object
containing the discovered information, with a method for building a
redirect URL to the server, as described in step 3 of the overview. This
object may also be used to add extension arguments to the request, using
its add_extension_arg method.
</p>
<p>
Raises <a href="DiscoveryFailure.html">DiscoveryFailure</a> when no <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> server can be found for this URL.
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          <span class="method-name">begin_without_discovery</span><span class="method-args">(service, anonymous)</span>
          </a>
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          <p>
Start <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> verification without doing <a
href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> server discovery. This method is used
internally by <a href="Consumer.html#M000302">Consumer.begin</a>() after
discovery is performed, and exists to provide an interface for library
users needing to perform their own discovery.
</p>
<p>
service: an <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> service endpoint
descriptor. This object and factories for it are found in the
openid/consumer/discovery.rb module.
</p>
<p>
Returns an <a href="../OpenID.html">OpenID</a> authentication request
object.
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          <span class="method-name">complete</span><span class="method-args">(query, current_url)</span>
          </a>
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Returns a subclass of <a href="Consumer/Response.html">Response</a>. The
type of response is indicated by the status attribute, which will be one of
SUCCESS, CANCEL, FAILURE, or SETUP_NEEDED.
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          <span class="method-name">association_manager</span><span class="method-args">(service)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">cleanup_last_requested_endpoint</span><span class="method-args">()</span>
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          <span class="method-name">cleanup_session</span><span class="method-args">()</span>
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          <span class="method-name">complete_cancel</span><span class="method-args">(unused_message, unused_return_to)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">complete_error</span><span class="method-args">(message, unused_return_to)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">complete_id_res</span><span class="method-args">(message, current_url)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">complete_invalid</span><span class="method-args">(message, unused_return_to)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">complete_setup_needed</span><span class="method-args">(message, unused_return_to)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">discover</span><span class="method-args">(identifier)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">discovery_manager</span><span class="method-args">(openid_identifier)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">handle_idres</span><span class="method-args">(message, current_url)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">last_requested_endpoint</span><span class="method-args">()</span>
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          <span class="method-name">last_requested_endpoint=</span><span class="method-args">(endpoint)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">negotiator</span><span class="method-args">()</span>
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          <span class="method-name">session_get</span><span class="method-args">(name)</span>
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          <span class="method-name">session_key</span><span class="method-args">(suffix)</span>
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