oauth_version is also being omitted (which is often defaulted in
various libraries), making it a little trickier to compare things.

seth

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Seth Fitzsimmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fair enough.
>
> Upon further investigation, the "nonce" and "timestamp" fields aren't
> being respected (they're being generated regardless of input).
>
> seth
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jr conlin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, I'll see what I can do about dumping that. (Possibly as an
>> "advanced" feature.)
>>
>> The API Key /Shared Secret is something that we use, partly because we
>> discovered a good deal of confusion about what "consumer" meant. (For
>> that matter, folks didn't understand the difference between "oauth" and
>> "consumer" either and would frequently swap them.) Since we provide the
>> key/secret with that term, I stuck with it here.
>>
>> Seth Fitzsimmons wrote:
>>> Hey JR.
>>>
>>> This is great.  It would be really helpful if you dumped the
>>> normalized parameter string and the signature base string as well as
>>> allowing the method to be overridden.  I've found that the signature
>>> base string is usually the piece that doesn't match between
>>> implementations, so being able to compare them is really valuable.
>>>
>>> Is there a reason that you're using the "Api key" / "Shared secret"
>>> terminology instead of "Consumer key" / "Consumer secret"?
>>>
>>> seth
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM, jr conlin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> My apologies for being a slug and not staying on top of the OAuth
>>>> Library stuff, but I did want to pass along one tool I just pushed live.
>>>>
>>>> http://developer.netflix.com/resources/OAuthTest
>>>>
>>>> provides a third party page to prove your OAuth HMAC-SHA1 signature
>>>> generation, and allows you to set the nonce and timestamp in order to
>>>> validate that your signature matches the signature I'm generating.
>>>>
>>>> Considering the number of times I've been asked in forums about "why is
>>>> my signature generated by library X being rejected?", I figured it might
>>>> be helpful to have something like this.
>>>>
>>>> Although it's targeted for Netflix, it's obviously not restricted to
>>>> only Netflix calls. It also doesn't fetch or store tokens or secrets, so
>>>> you'd have to provide your own.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you have any questions or comments about this. (I'd love
>>>> to hear that someone else had already built something like this, but the
>>>> term.ie form seems to be more targeted toward fetching the request token.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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