There's only one thing I notice and that is that you seem to be adding a "=" to your signature. Why?
I also noticed that you don't URL encode the values in $content. If I recall correctly, you have to URL encode those as well. If that was not the issue, then please show your Base String and the HTTP request. Tom On 9/2/10 11:33 PM, Lars wrote: > Hi, > > I am not a Perl expert but I have developed a small web page with Perl > which is somewhat popular in Germany (according to Alexa trafic rank < > 1000). And this web site is tweeting important events using its own > twitter account. > > I tried for days but I am not able to get it working (tweeting) again. > > I registered my web page/application and want to use my access tokens > "oauth_token" and "oauth_token_secret" which I find under my > application settings because I am using only this twitter account to > tweet (see http://dev.twitter.com/pages/oauth_single_token) > > But the response is always "401 Unauthorized"! > > Any ideas? > > My Perl program looks like this (my provider does not offer the module > NET::Twitter) > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); > use strict; > use Digest::HMAC_SHA1; > use Encode qw(encode); > use URI::Escape; > use LWP::UserAgent; > use HTTP::Request::Common ('POST'); > > my $api_url = "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json"; > my $status = "Hello world"; > my $oauth_consumer_key = "XYZ"; > my $oauth_consumer_secret = "XYZ"; > my $oauth_nonce = "10000000001"; > my $oauth_signature_method = "HMAC-SHA1"; > my $oauth_token = "XYZ"; # from my application under my access token > my $oauth_token_secret = "XYZ"; # from my application under my access > token > my $oauth_timestamp = "1272325550"; > my $oauth_version = "1.0"; > my $content = "oauth_consumer_key=$oauth_consumer_key&oauth_nonce= > $oauth_nonce&oauth_signature_method= > $oauth_signature_method&oauth_timestamp=$oauth_timestamp&oauth_token= > $oauth_token&oauth_version=$oauth_version&status=$status"; > > my $signature_base_str = "POST&" . uri_escape_RFC3986($api_url) . > "&" . uri_escape_RFC3986($content); > > my $HMAC_SHA1_key = uri_escape_RFC3986(Encode::encode("UTF-8", > $oauth_consumer_secret)); > $HMAC_SHA1_key .= "&"; > $HMAC_SHA1_key .= uri_escape_RFC3986(Encode::encode("UTF-8", > $oauth_token_secret)); > > my $hmac = Digest::HMAC_SHA1->new($HMAC_SHA1_key); > $hmac->add($signature_base_str); > my $signature = $hmac->b64digest; > $signature .= "="; > > my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; > my $req = POST($api_url => [ > oauth_nonce => $oauth_nonce, > oauth_signature_method => $oauth_signature_method, > oauth_timestamp => $oauth_timestamp, > oauth_consumer_key => $oauth_consumer_key, > oauth_token => $oauth_token, > oauth_signature => $signature, > oauth_version => $oauth_version, > status => $status > ]); > > my $res = $ua->request($req); > > print "Content-type: text\/html\n\n"; > > if ($res->is_success) { > print "success: $res->decoded_content"; > } > else { > print "error:", $res->status_line; > } > > #---------------------------------------------------- > > sub uri_escape_RFC3986 { > my($str) = @_; > > return uri_escape($str,"^A-Za-z0-9\-_.~"); > } > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
