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Use the (Web sign-in) button on a site to sign-in with your personal web address. | Use the (Web sign-in) button on a site to sign-in with your personal web address. | ||
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Your personal site must be set up for web sign-in. | Your personal site must be set up for web sign-in. | ||
# Link from your personal site to your other profiles. Add <code>rel="me"</code> to those hyperlinks. E.g.: <blockquote style="white-space:nowrap"><code><a <strong>rel="me"</strong> href="http://twitter.com/your_twitter_alias">...</code></blockquote> | # Link from your personal site to your other profiles. Add <code>rel="me"</code> to those hyperlinks. E.g.: <blockquote style="white-space:nowrap"><code><a <strong>rel="me"</strong> <nowiki>href="http://twitter.com/your_twitter_alias">...</nowiki></code></blockquote> | ||
# Edit your other profiles, e.g. your [https://twitter.com/settings/profile Twitter profile settings], and set "Web" ("homepage", "blog") field to your personal site. E.g. <blockquote style="white-space:nowrap">Web <span style="border:1px solid silver; padding:5px; margin-left:1em"><nowiki>http://yoursite.example.com/</nowiki></span></blockquote> | # Edit your other profiles, e.g. your [https://twitter.com/settings/profile Twitter profile settings], and set "Web" ("homepage", "blog") field to your personal site. E.g. <blockquote style="white-space:nowrap">Web <span style="border:1px solid silver; padding:5px; margin-left:1em"><nowiki>http://yoursite.example.com/</nowiki></span></blockquote> | ||
# When you use your personal site with web sign-in the first time, your browser will redirect you to to your online profile, e.g. Twitter, and ask you to: | |||
When you use your personal site with web sign-in the first time, your browser will redirect you to to your online profile, e.g. Twitter, and ask you to: | #* Sign-in with your account on that profile (e.g. sign in to Twitter) if you're not already signed-in. | ||
* Sign-in with your account on that profile (e.g. sign in to Twitter) if you're not already signed-in. | #* Authorize the site to use your account, e.g. your Twitter account: <blockquote><p>Authorize Site to use your account?</p><p>This application will be able to:</p><ul><li>Read Tweets from your timeline.</li><li>See who you follow.</li></ul><p>( Sign In )</p></blockquote> Click the <b>( Sign In )</b> button and you should be all set. | ||
* Authorize the site to use your account, e.g. your Twitter account: <blockquote><p>Authorize | |||
== developers == | == developers == | ||
See the [[RelMeAuth]] page for documentation on how to support Web sign-in on your site. | See the [[RelMeAuth]] page for documentation on how to support Web sign-in on your site. | ||
Revision as of 07:15, 27 November 2011
<entry-title>Web sign-in</entry-title>
Use the (Web sign-in) button on a site to sign-in with your personal web address.
When you click a (Web sign-in) button, the site will ask you for your web address, e.g.:
Web address: [...............] (Sign-in)
Enter your personal web address and press return / click (Sign-in).
set up
Your personal site must be set up for web sign-in.
- Link from your personal site to your other profiles. Add
rel="me"to those hyperlinks. E.g.:<a rel="me" href="http://twitter.com/your_twitter_alias">... - Edit your other profiles, e.g. your Twitter profile settings, and set "Web" ("homepage", "blog") field to your personal site. E.g.
Web http://yoursite.example.com/
- When you use your personal site with web sign-in the first time, your browser will redirect you to to your online profile, e.g. Twitter, and ask you to:
- Sign-in with your account on that profile (e.g. sign in to Twitter) if you're not already signed-in.
- Authorize the site to use your account, e.g. your Twitter account:
Click the ( Sign In ) button and you should be all set.Authorize Site to use your account?
This application will be able to:
- Read Tweets from your timeline.
- See who you follow.
( Sign In )
developers
See the RelMeAuth page for documentation on how to support Web sign-in on your site.