Updates on SLOpenID, sw.slr

Yeah, what I’m about to say may sound a bit weird (if not because I’m blogging it here instead of the SLOpenID blog :-s Those of you who have been following my work on OpenID & SL will be aware that the SLOpenID project has been launched twice- first using the standalone PHP server, and [...]

Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer: Using the BotBouncer API

In my previous post, I showed how a one-line modification would allow you to route OpenID logins through BotBouncer to help protect your WordPress blog from bot-spam. There was one problem with the one-liner method though, it’d route logins through BotBouncer every time a user tried to login to your WordPress blog with their OpenID- [...]

Modding WPopenid to use BotBouncer

If you’re not familiar with them…. WPopenid is a plugin for WordPress to allow OpenID logins, and BotBouncer is a CAPTCHA service for OpenIDs. The Mod openid-registration.php, line 257 $this->start_login( $_POST['openid_url'], ‘http://botbouncer.com/captcha/queryuser?return_to=’ . urlencode(get_settings(‘home’) . ‘/’ . $redirect_to) . ‘&openid=’ . $_POST['openid_url'] );