Thanks, Paul,

Yeah, we used OpenSSL to generate keys both times, so I have no idea
why the first pair was out of sync.  Oh well.  Thank you for looking
into it anyway.

Dan

On Nov 24, 2:52 pm, "Paul (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks a lot for posting a follow-up, and for the suggestion on
> refining the error message.  It looks like there are three possible
> causes of the "401: Invalid AuthSub Signature" error, which is a
> missing (cannot be loaded) private key, the client system time being
> out of sync, and the public cert and private key being out of sync.
> I've primarily seen the first situation with the Java GData client
> libraries, and it may not affect all client libraries.  For the time
> sync error, there presently may be a more informative error message
> (working to verify); although, I believe that it's still a 401
> response code.  The third situation seems to be the most common cause
> of the signature error.  There unfortunately isn't a way to retrieve a
> public key once it has been uploaded to the Manage Domains tool.
> However, using the OAuth Playground, a user can include a private key
> when testing the OAuth linkage, so the tool can be able to test a key
> and cert pair.
>
> http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/
>
> Thanks again!  Glad to hear you were able to work through the issue!
>
> Paul (Google)
>
> On Nov 24, 9:29 am, Dan Lowenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Okay, really sorry.  I had a bad cert - the public and private keys
> > didn't match.  Still, some more feedback, rather than just a 401
> > error, would be nice. Maybe this should be documented better.
>
> > On Nov 23, 2:15 pm, Dan Lowenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Also, the time on our server is correct.
>
> > > On Nov 23, 1:20 pm, Dan Lowenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I'm developing an online patient portal for Clarkson Eyecare, and I am
> > > > having an issue with getting permanent session tokens.
>
> > > > I am attempting to send a request 
> > > > tohttps://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubSessionToken
> > > > using an auth token I obtained from this 
> > > > page:https://www.google.com/h9/authsub?scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%...
>
> > > > (note: the "next" target is a development page - it's not open to the
> > > > public)
>
> > > > I get the temporary, one-time auth token in our "next" page just fine.
> > > > However, every time I try to use it (and signature information) to
> > > > request a session token, I get an error 401.  The certificate
> > > > associated with the private key I'm using to generate the rsa-sha1
> > > > signature is definitely registered with our profile.
>
> > > > I am using PHP to try to submit the data to AuthSubSessionToken.  I
> > > > usedhttp://gdatatips.blogspot.com/2008/07/secure-authsub-in-php.html
> > > > as a reference (it is referenced in many of these forum discussions),
> > > > and my code does essentially the same thing. One thing I noticed was
> > > > that it uses md5 to generate the nonce - md5 creates 128-bit results
> > > > encoded in hex, NOT 64-bit base 10 integers (which the documentation
> > > > says it should be). That being said, using a 64-bit long doesn't seem
> > > > to work either. Since I can't seem to get a more descriptive error
> > > > message, I tried to dig through the forums to see if anyone else had
> > > > these same issues; if it's out there, I couldn't find it.  Some people
> > > > got 401 errors, but they were usually either using the Java client or
> > > > Zend, and were usually issues finding or using the private key (which
> > > > I'm NOT having - the signature is generated just fine).  I don't want
> > > > to install Zend just to do this one process that should be a fairly
> > > > straightforward cURL call.
>
> > > > Here's an example Authorization header line for the data that was
> > > > sent:
> > > > Authorization: AuthSub token="<auth token>" 
> > > > data="GEThttps://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubSessionToken1290539269
> > > > 7ee5fa7cea605049d1c49c57cf136924" sig="<signature>" sigalg="rsa-sha1"
> > > > with <auth token> and <signature> obviously filled in with real
> > > > values.
>
> > > > Thank you in advance for your help,
> > > > Dan

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