title: AOL openid website verification
body: <p>Iam trying to use AOL openid, nut am getting "AOL is unable to verify this website"</p>
  
  <p>can somebody tell me the steps to avoid this error, what should I don on my end.</p>
  
  <p>If there is some sample code please share it  - thanks in advance</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IByP7.jpg" alt="AOL openid unable to verify website"></p>
  
  <p>Regards,</p>
  
  <p>Navin</p>
  
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  <p>George thank you for you answer, however I have issue in make it work, my xrds file as follows        </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  header('Content-type: application/xrds+xml');
  $xrdstext = "&lt;?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext . "&lt;xrds:XRDS";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ." xmlns:xrds=\"xri://$xrds\"";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ." xmlns:openid=\"http://openid.net/xmlns/1.0\"";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ." xmlns=\"xri://$xrd*($v*2.0)\"&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ."&lt;XRD&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ."&lt;Service xmlns=\"xri://$xrd*($v*2.0)\"&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ."&lt;Type&gt;http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/return_to&lt;/Type&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ."&lt;URI&gt;http://localhost:56709/myproject/socialoauth.aspx&lt;/URI&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ."&lt;/Service&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ."&lt;/XRD&gt;\n";
      $xrdstext =$xrdstext ."&lt;/xrds:XRDS&gt;";
  echo $xrdstext;
  ?&gt;  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and my request url is</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://api.screenname.aol.com/auth/openidServer?openid.claimed_id=http://openid.aol.com/navinleon&amp;openid.identity=http://openid.aol.com/navinleon&amp;openid.return_to=http://localhost:56709/myproject/socialoauth.aspx&amp;openid.realm=http://mydomain.com/xrds/&amp;openid.mode=checkid_setup&amp;openid.assoc_handle=f457ae42e94c11e0811b002655277584&amp;openid.ns=http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0&amp;openid.ns.alias3=http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0&amp;openid.alias3.if_available=alias5&amp;openid.alias3.required=alias1,alias2,alias3,alias4,alias6,alias7&amp;openid.alias3.mode=fetch_request&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias1=http://axschema.org/namePerson/friendly&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias1=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias2=http://axschema.org/namePerson/first&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias2=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias3=http://axschema.org/namePerson/last&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias3=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias4=http://axschema.org/contact/country/home&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias4=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias5=http://axschema.org/pref/language&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias5=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias6=http://axschema.org/contact/email&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias6=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias7=http://axschema.org/birthDate&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias7=1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://api.screenname.aol.com/auth/openidServer?openid.claimed_id=http://openid.aol.com/navinleon&amp;openid.identity=http://openid.aol.com/navinleon&amp;openid.return_to=http://localhost:56709/myproject/socialoauth.aspx&amp;openid.realm=http://mydomain.com/xrds/&amp;openid.mode=checkid_setup&amp;openid.assoc_handle=f457ae42e94c11e0811b002655277584&amp;openid.ns=http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0&amp;openid.ns.alias3=http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0&amp;openid.alias3.if_available=alias5&amp;openid.alias3.required=alias1,alias2,alias3,alias4,alias6,alias7&amp;openid.alias3.mode=fetch_request&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias1=http://axschema.org/namePerson/friendly&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias1=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias2=http://axschema.org/namePerson/first&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias2=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias3=http://axschema.org/namePerson/last&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias3=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias4=http://axschema.org/contact/country/home&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias4=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias5=http://axschema.org/pref/language&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias5=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias6=http://axschema.org/contact/email&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias6=1&amp;openid.alias3.type.alias7=http://axschema.org/birthDate&amp;openid.alias3.count.alias7=1</a></p>
  
  <p>am not sure what am doing wrong<br>
  please help...</p>