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@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ Now that google supports using thier profiles as OpenIDs, that can be used
 directly to sign into ikiwiki. Just use, for example, 
 <http://www.google.com/profiles/joeyhess> . Tested and it works. --[[Joey]] 
 
+> This seems to work fine if you use the profile directly as an OpenID.  It doesn't seem to work with delegation.  From that I can see, this is a deliberate decision by Google for security reasons.  See the response [here](http://groups.google.com/group/google-federated-login-api/browse_thread/thread/825067789537568c/23451a68c8b8b057?show_docid=23451a68c8b8b057). -- [[Will]]
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 ## historical discussion
 
 when I login via to this wiki (or ours) via Google's OpenID, I get this error: