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Retroactive Link Verification for Known MicroID Publishers

November 5th, 2006 - Terrell Russell

On the heels of our announcement regarding multiple email address management and autoverification for MicroID-enabled sites, we have another announcement…

We have now retroactively verified all our users’ links that belong to sites in our list of Known MicroID Publishers.

After extensive local testing for at least 15-20 minutes, our extremely powerful regular expression engine ran through the entire claimID database and flagged all the links that matched the Publishers list.

So what this means for you, the user: without any extra work on your part, if your email addresses are the same here and at the other end of your claimed link, it’s now automatically verified for you. And it should be marked as such on your claimID page.

If you expected a certain link to verify and it did not - there are two things you need to check in order to convince us our well-tested code is doing something wrong:

  1. The exact email address used to compute the MicroID on the other end - must be in your account here at claimID.
  2. The URL in question must be exactly the same one they’re using on the other end. Trailing slashes matter. The http(s) matters. Exactly the same.

We’re working on a guide to help with working through issues of MicroID verification. Watch this space.

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 5th, 2006 at 5:36 am and is filed under Dispatches from a beta, MicroID, New Features, claimID.

4 Responses to “Retroactive Link Verification for Known MicroID Publishers”

  1. davey Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 10:11 am

    I’m having problems with my del.icio.us account. Same email address on delicious & claimid, and both and without trailing slashes http://del.icio.us/myname & http://del.icio.us/myname/ generate the same microid; claimid wants to generate a different one :(

  2. Terrell Russell Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    Davey,

    Have you clicked on the ‘verify’ link since making sure all the pieces line up?

    Please give it one more shot.

    Additionally, a resource you can use to test what ’should’ be calculated is the MicroID homepage itself, microid.org. There is a javascript calculator directly on the site.

  3. davey Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 9:15 pm

    Terrell, thanks for the email, all is working fine now :)
    Firefox was blocking (possible the js part of) the verification ninja link resending thing, so I had to complete it in IE.

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