[twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Randomness
I still get the same mistake all the time, after I get asked and cancel for a username and password: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? errors error code=32Could not authenticate you/error /errors The xml part of the VBA now looks like this: Set xml = CreateObject(MSXML2.XMLHTTP) xml.Open POST,

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Multiple things: * You missed a space in the Authorization header. Go look in my post ;) * You don't have to put the quotes in the Base String. Only in the Authorization: header. Tom On 9/21/10 12:14 AM, Randomness wrote: I still get the same mistake all the time, after I get asked and

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Taylor Singletary
Randomness, I don't have much experience in using OAuth or REST APIs from Excel like this -- but I'd like to recommend that when you are attempting to set a status that you put the status=xyz portion in the actual POST body of the request (rather than on the query string). Make sure that, at

[twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Randomness
I don't see where the space is missing.. I did not put quotes in the base string. I assume that it only serves as a way to claculate an oauth signature, which is calculated exactly as by your website and by twitter. Still stuck On Sep 21, 12:16 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote:

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Bad: xml.setRequestHeader Authorization, OAuth Cells(17, 3) Good: xml.setRequestHeader Authorization, OAuth Cells(17, 3) Also, if I am not mistaken, %22 is and I definitely see those in your Base String ;-) I'm not saying that it's impossible to have them there, just that it's very unlikely

[twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Randomness
I am really getting confused. I did not show the base string, as I believe it is only used to caclulate the signature, but it looks like this: POSThttp%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1%2Fstatuses %2Fupdate.xmloauth_consumer_key%3DMUCONSUMERKEY%26oauth_nonce

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
That Base String looks fine. But what was the thing you showed us a few posts back? (Really, it looked like a base string!) Tom On 9/21/10 12:39 AM, Randomness wrote: I am really getting confused. I did not show the base string, as I believe it is only used to caclulate the signature, but it

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: using Excel as client

2010-09-20 Thread Tom van der Woerdt
Well, you most likely misinterpreted ;-) headerstring=oauth_consumer_key=myconsumerkey, oauth_token=mytoken, oauth_signature_method =HMAC-SHA1, oauth_signature=calculatedsignature, oauth_timestamp=1285014608,