How does the Windows LIve ID work?

Question

I was fortunate enough to find this good article explaining how OpenID works. Obviously, an OpenID user and an OpenID server pass information through a URL query string.

I am wondering how the Live ID performs similar functionality. It seems that the information is not exchanged for the query string in the URL. And, since the Live ID login server has a different domain name from the consumer domain, it is not applicable for the transmission of information via a cookie.

I tried the Google Live ID guide, but the result is full of jargon and hard to understand. Is there an easy-to-understand tutorial on how Live ID works?

Answer 1

I would like to tell you that Microsoft signed a contract with OpenID, but did not implement it. The Live ID is different from OpenID, but LiveID supports OAuth and thus uses the OAuth LiveID method. I don’t know how much they will take to implement OpenID