OpenId with Desktop Application?

Question

We\'re using an API from a provider; in their next version, they would provide an OpenId server but mostly the users are using their desktop application. An other website we\'re

Answer 1

OpenID and desktop apps are totally completely and altogether incompatible. You cannot secure a desktop app using OpenID.

Look at OAuth. It can work with or without OpenID, but OAuth is all about authorizing apps including desktop apps to access network resources.

Answer 2

I think the answer is "it depends." For the close-and-reopened browser question, it depends on whether your sites use session cookies or persistent cookies to authenticate requests.

But as for the authenticate-with-desktop-client-and-then-open-a-browser, you'd have to ask the provider for more details. I can imagine ways to do it that would have either outcome.