Jabber Takes On MS Passport

Lord Prox writes "Jabber Ticket Authentication is a method of authenticating with HTTP servers using your jabber identification. This allows you to login to websites using your jabber address in a single sign-on fashion similar to .NET Passport, but unlike .NET Passport is not locked into a single authentication provider. Tickets also mean the jabber ticket provider and the web server do not need to be tightly integrated for authentication to work, also because its not tightly integrated it means webmasters do not need to setup their own jabber server to provide tickets, they can use a third party provider even a central "tickets.jabber.org". Also because tickets are not tightly integrated it makes it far easier for webmasters to integrate with Jabber, it also makes web farms far more scalable and reliable." Update: 02/11 19:22 GMT by T : The link to jabber.org has been fixed; thanks to reader Laurence Withers.

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Lose moderation ability to say this but,

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Was it just me or were there way too many times that post used the word also. It sounds like interesting information though. Also, it could be really cool if you're a webmaster wanting to secure access centrally and also don't want to deal with it yourself. It would also be cool as a user not needing extra passwords also. Also, there must be one more way I can find to use the word also. Also