OAuth should work fine on stream.twitter.com

-John Kalucki
http://twitter.com/jkalucki
Infrastructure, Twitter Inc.



On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Wil <willi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a bit dumbfounded here...
>
> I've been trying to login to stream.twitter.com using OAuth
> (particularly, I've been trying to access
> http://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json?follow=####). I used
> the access keys obtained from https://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token
> however, I've been getting 401 errors. I've tried basic authentication
> and it works fine.
>
> Does that mean that stream:statuses/filter is still can only accept
> basic authentication?
>
> Regards,
> Wil
>
> On May 25, 5:51 am, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote:
>> We haven't announced our plans for streaming and oAuth, beyond stating that
>> User Streams will only be on oAuth.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:57 PM, 140dev <140...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Does this mean that the streaming API will also make the switch from
>> > basic authentication to OAuth at the end of June?
>>
>> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Mark McBride <mmcbr...@twitter.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > OAuth is now enabled on stream.twitter.com.  I'll also send a note out
>> > > to the announce list
>>
>> > >   ---Mark
>>
>> > >http://twitter.com/mccv
>>
>> > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Aaron Rankin <aran...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >> Hi,
>>
>> > >> Is there an ETA for enabling oauth on stream.twitter.com?
>>
>> > >> Thanks,
>> > >> Aaron
>>
>> > >> On May 13, 1:11 pm, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote:
>> > >>> OAuthis not enabled on stream.twitter.com. You can try on
>> > >>> chirpstream.twitter.com.
>>
>> > >>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Lucas Vickers <
>> > lucasvick...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >>> > I am writing my own c++ basedOAuthlibrary.  I know there is liboauth
>> > >>> > but I like to do things myself to learn.
>>
>> > >>> > Anyhow I am trying to accesshttp://
>> > stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/sample.xml
>> > >>> > and I keep getting 401.
>>
>> > >>> > I have verified pretty much every parameter, and used the tool on
>>
>> >http://hueniverse.com/2008/10/beginners-guide-to-oauth-part-iv-signin...
>> > >>> > to verify my signature is correct. I used twurl to obtain the user
>> > >>> > access tokens to my account.
>>
>> > >>> > After doing some reading I'm no longer convinced that thestreaming
>> > >>> > server even supportsoauth.
>>
>> > >>> > can you fill me in on the current status of stream.twitter.com and
>> > >>> >oauth?
>>
>> > >>> > thanks!
>> > >>> > Lucas
>>
>> > >>> > On Apr 20, 11:02 pm, Jonathon Hill <jhill9...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >>> >> Thanks Taylor for the very detailed and helpful response!
>>
>> > >>> >> Jonathon
>>
>> > >>> >> On Apr 20, 1:17 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com
>>
>> > >>> >> wrote:
>>
>> > >>> >> > Hi Jonathon,
>>
>> > >>> >> > ForStreamingAPI access that isn't from the perspective of a user's
>> > >>> >> > account, you would use two-leggedOAuthto establish authentication
>> > instead
>> > >>> >> > of basic auth.
>>
>> > >>> >> > A two-leggedOAuthrequest is very similar to otherOAuthrequests:
>> > you have
>> > >>> >> > a specific resource you are trying to access, you have some
>> > parameters you
>> > >>> >> > want to pass to that resource, and you have anOAuthconsumer key
>> > andOAuth
>> > >>> >> > consumer secret. Which is unlike three-leggedOAuthwhere you also
>> > have
>> > >>> >> > oauth_tokens representing either a user/access_token or a request
>> > token in
>> > >>> >> > addition to the rest.
>>
>> > >>> >> > But the rules remain the same. You take all theOAuthparameters and
>> > the
>> > >>> >> > parameters you are sending to the resource, organize them, build a
>> > signature
>> > >>> >> > base string, then sign that with your consumer secret and send the
>> > request
>> > >>> >> > on to Twitter properly signed. The only difference is that there
>> > is no
>> > >>> >> > oauth_token and oauth_token_secret getting involved in the mix.
>>
>> > >>> >> > This is essentially what a two-legged request to thestreamingAPI
>> > would
>> > >>> >> > look like:
>>
>> > >>> >> > Signature Base String
>> > >>> >> > GET&http%3A%2F%2Fstream.twitter.com
>>
>> > %2F1%2Fstatuses%2Fsample.json&oauth_consumer_key%3Dri8JxYK2zzwSV5xIUfNNvQ%2
>> >  
>> > ­6oauth_nonce%3DSJJqJPdaZrYuIogToapS6ueJRyWB4Rs2ox4HEbu4nW8%26oauth_signatu
>> >  
>> > r­e_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1271783743%26oauth_version%3D1.0
>>
>> > >>> >> > Signature
>> > >>> >> > Xi5jfuw2XqtU5KpNX9ZCtTptJS0=
>>
>> > >>> >> > Authorization Header
>> > >>> >> >OAuthoauth_nonce="SJJqJPdaZrYuIogToapS6ueJRyWB4Rs2ox4HEbu4nW8",
>> > >>> >> > oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1271783743",
>> > >>> >> > oauth_consumer_key="ri8JxYK2zzwSV5xIUfNNvQ",
>> > >>> >> > oauth_signature="Xi5jfuw2XqtU5KpNX9ZCtTptJS0%3D",
>> > oauth_version="1.0"
>>
>> > >>> >> > Taylor Singletary
>> > >>> >> > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/episod
>>
>> > >>> >> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Jonathon Hill <
>> > jhill9...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >>> >> > > One thing I meant to find out @chirp last week--what
>> > willoauthlook
>> > >>> >> > > like for theStreamingAPI? I'm having a hard time visualizing how
>> > >>> >> > > that will work.
>>
>> > >>> >> > > Thanks,
>>
>> > >>> >> > > Jonathon Hill
>> > >>> >> > > @compwright
>> > >>> >> > > Company52
>> > >>> >> > >http://company52.com
>>
>> > >>> >> > > --
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