python - How do you develop against OpenID locally

Question

I'm developing a website (in Django) that uses OpenID to authenticate users. As I'm currently only running on my local machine I can't authenticate using one of the OpenID providers on the web. So I figure I need to run a local OpenID server that simply lets me type in a username and then passes that back to my main app.

Does such an OpenID dev server exist? Is this the best way to go about it?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/172040/how-do-you-develop-against-openid-locally

Answer 1

The libraries at OpenID Enabled ship with examples that are sufficient to run a local test provider. Look in the examples/djopenid/ directory of the python-openid source distribution. Running that will give you an instance of this test provider.