Logging into StackOverflow.com and Meta.StackOverflow.com
- by Tahir Hassan
I have recently created a myopenid to log into stack overflow. This login works on stackoverflow.com but NOT on meta.stackoverflow.com. Why is this? This seems like it is a problem on (meta)stackoverflow's side rather than myopenid's side.
When I attempt to login to meta.stackoverflow.com using myopenid login, I end up being redirected to a blank page with a very long query string. The url of the blank page is
http://www.myopenid.com/server?...
Secondly, my google login does not work. When I attempt to login to stackoverflow.com using my google login I end up seeing a blank page with a url beginning with
http://stackoverflow.com/users/authenticate/?s...
I am using Firefox 3.6.3 and I can successfully login to stackoverflow.com using myopenid but NOT with myopenid onto meta.stackoverflow.com and NOT with google onto stackoverflow.com.
Please note that I would prefer to use my google login to login to stackoverflow. I only created myopenid account to get to the root of the problem.
Stackoverflow should seriously consider giving users the option of having stackoverflow specific credentials because for me and I am sure countless others this openid thing don't work.
(I know this should be posted in meta.stackoverflow.com but this requires a working openid, which I do not have).