# LiveJournal

LiveJournal provides OpenId, it doesn’t require any major settings in order to work, beside being defined on `AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS``:

    SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
        ...
        'social.backends.aol.AOLOpenId',
        ...
    )

LiveJournal OpenId is provided by URLs in the form `http://<username>.livejournal.com`, this application retrieves the `username` from the data in the current request by checking a parameter named `openid_lj_user` which can be sent by `POST` or `GET`.