OpenID autoregistration via logging in

On 4/14/2010 4:21 AM, me wrote:
> I wonder why header_redirect does not work, but manually redirecting?!
>
header_redirect deletes "login" param from URL

> What happens with required fields like email? The register screen
> complains about them missing, right?
>
The email field gets filled by registration process, of course it would
be better to pass it from login screen, but I couldn't get it working.

> Also, I suppose the user is required to provide a password? This should be
> optional: not disallowed, but not required/asked for by default.
>
Yes

> Also, if the user provides a username and/or email during the OpenID
> authentication (by means of "sreg"), this should get passed on to the
> registration process.
>
In my implementation these fields are filled during and after the
registration process, but this is only because I didn't figure out how
to do this during the login procedure.

> Therefore we could add the option "Auto-register users during login" to
> the OpenID plugin.
>
That would be cool

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Regards,
Alex