App Engine
13 Jun 2008
Issue 404 is the key to getting OpenID working on Google App Engine but currently it only has 10 stars.
Please star Issue 404 to get OpenID support on Google App Engine.
Developer emptor: I just lost a couple of hours to this: make sure you disable the Google App Engine doctest import in your apps when you're done testing a module lest you encounter _weird_ errors. I started having the login URL returned by users.create_login_url() being returned incorrectly when I forgot to remove the doctest import. It started forwarding to https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=. Check out my forum post on it here.
I love Python's doctests. Basically, you test out your functions in the interactive shell and copy the results into the comments for a function. That's it! So simple.
Update: Ryan just updated me that the issue we should be starring for this is Issue 404 not Issue 17.
You can almost but not quite create an OpenID consumer on Google App Engine today using python-openid.
Update: Marzia from the Google App Engine team responded to the post. It is a bug (and, according to yet another update on the forums, this has now been fixed).
Here's Marzia's comment:
I've had a hard time trying to get Internet Explorer on Windows (under Parallels) to connect to the Google App Engine local development server running on OS X.
The interesting thing was that IE would connect to the built-in web server on the Mac without problem (using the Shared Network setting, I could also connect to any other web site.) But I couldn't connect to the development server either via IP or via the computer name using Bonjour for Windows.