btw, oauth_playground seems to be down as well.

Also, I don't understand why create account which uses the same core
method to create signature works but none of the other methods
(friends_timeline, update statuses) dont work :(  waiting for some
hints

On Jul 27, 9:40 pm, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote:
> Please use the OAuth playground [1] to test your signatures against the
> expected result. I am working to gather specifics to help your debug process
> (i.e. what changed?) in the mean time.
> 1.http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:29 PM, winrich <winric...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ok guys.
>
> > so my calls were failing on the verify_credentials call and not on the
> > update or timeline calls. the only difference i saw was the the
> > verify_credential call wasn't secured. i changed it to https and it
> > worked. ??? lol
>
> > On Jul 27, 9:19 pm, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Duane
>
> > > Roelands<duane.roela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > RTFM is not a helpful answer, especially when many developers are
> > > > relying on libraries that they did not write.
>
> > > That's a risk you run when using code you didn't write.
>
> > > I'm not saying that this situation doesn't suck for those affected.
> > > I'm sure that it does. But, for a technology so new as OAuth, the
> > > libraries may not be mature yet.
>
> > > Officially, Twitter OAuth is still in Public Beta and has never been
> > > officially recommended to integrate into production code. That being
> > > said, there could still be a problem on Twitter's end with their
> > > signature verification mechanism and the libraries could all be valid.
> > > I don't have a way of knowing.
>
> > > I do agree that at least a note that "a security change was pushed
> > > today" would be nice, though.
>
> > > -Chad

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