OpenId + remember me / staying logged in

Question

I have a question as to how / what the best approaches are to using OpenId and also providing the ability to stay logged in.

If i look at Stackoverflow for example i hav

Answer 1

Stack overflow probably uses a cookie to remember you as user number xyz or session id 1234. After authentication, OpenID has nothing at all to do with the session anymore. SO doesn't have the ability to see if you are still logged in to Google so this seems only natural.