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Are you able to log in to other sites that support OpenID? Lots of sites now support OpenID including big ones like Facebook. Does your OpenID work there? … If possible, try a new, default OpenID or switch OpenID providers just for testing. Is your site especially slow to respond? …

Your OpenID endpoint name is the key, and those are unique for your accounts. … The e-mail address is irrelevant, and does not need to be confirmed, because it was confirmed separately by your openID provider. …

provider might not be known to Stack Exchange as well) Your previous OpenID, and the reason why it needs to be replaced Your new OpenID (The last 4 details are only known to you, and not publicly visible … To prevent this from happening in the first place, Stack Overflow supports an alternate or backup openid for every account, but you have to set that up yourself. …

Are you just trying to determine automatically whether a given openid url or which from a set of openid urls are valid stackoverflow users, and what their stackoverflow id is? … Unfortunately there's a big exception for google, since they use a different unique url per site (something Jeff & co taught us when adding more sites after Stackoverflow.com) and so the google openid …

So the OpenID endpoint seen by careers.stackoverflow is different from stackoverflow itself. You log in to a completely different OpenID endpoint. … With most openID providers, their relationship with Amazon and the common OpenID endpoint might be enough for them to get the address out of Amazon (I'll give Amazon a little privacy credit and say "probably …

If you don't like this, one of the nice things about StackOverflow is that you can use the alternate OpenID feature to switch your account to a different OpenID provider that has the behavior you want. …