Nah, it's actually quite easy, you just need to know where to look.

Almost all OAuth issues are with generating the Base String. This tool
can help you validate yours: <http://quonos.nl/oauthTester/>

Tom


On 9/7/10 1:28 AM, hgc2002 wrote:
> That's a very good way to avoid helping, and to waste time.
> 
> If you read just part of the code at the top of the conversation, you
> may have seen the signature based being constructed.
> 
> Trying to be constructive, Twitter Dev Team, please add more tools to
> test the OAuth/xAuth stuff.
> Many examples are wrong or simply incomplete so you can't try with
> them.
> If the examples are part of the API, this is definetely wrong.
> It takes to to errors, and waste time.
> 
> Please help on find out what's going on with the code.
> Today Twitter team has included a hard synchronization requirement in
> every OAuth requests (including xAuth).
> Now I have something else to worry about, and no help...
> 
> I'm thinking about giving up.
> This is too confuse and heavy to test.
> 
> Regards,
> Herman
> 
> 
> On 6 sep, 20:21, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote:
>>> What do you mean?
>>
>> When you sign an OAuth (or xAuth) request, you use a base string composed of
>> various components of the request itself. The OAuth spec goes into this in
>> detail, and there are many helpers to show you how the base string is
>> constructed. If you construct it incorrectly, your signature will be wrong.
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------ personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/--
>>   Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com
>> -- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Salvor Hardin 
>> -----------
> 

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