502676 - weave don't log in with OpenID - it makes the site think I want to register a new account with that openID

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Mozilla Labs :: Concept Series, defect)

Description

[Erik Westrup]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: 0.4.0

When I'm about to log in to a site that uses OpenID, lets say identi.ca or getsatisfaction Weave will somehow trick the website to believe that I want to create a new account with that OpenID for the site and the site shows me a register form etc. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a site that you use to log in with your OpenID on
2. Hit the icon in the awesomebar and login with the connect OpenID in the list
3. Se how the site takes you to a register form
Actual Results:  
Site thinks you want to register a new account with that OpenID.

Expected Results:  
Log in on the site with the OpenID the user has registered before with.

I'm on Firefox 3.5, Mac OS X.

Comment 1

[Jeong-Hoon, Rhim]

ex) open id site : www.myid.net
original source is input box + [로그인] button
but
because of weave, input box attribute add type="hidden"
and then, cannot login.
but I can use firebug for deleting type="hidden".
at last, I can see input box.
I can log in.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing all inactive bugs in Mozilla labs :: *
Please reopen if this are still relevant.