xAuth is only for the credentials exchange process. It's not possible to do this with just xAuth.
Tom On 9/21/10 3:15 PM, andy wrote: > And how should we proceed with xauth? > > On 21 Sep., 15:14, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote: >> Again: that's no xAuth, that's OAuth. >> >> The issue here: there's no oauth_token present. >> >> Tom >> >> On 9/21/10 3:11 PM, andy wrote: >> >>> Hello I have problems to send a new Direct Message. >> >>> I use xAuth to authentification to Twitter. I get an successful >>> response with oauth_token and oauth_token_secret. >> >>> After this I send a request to get the friends Timeline. This I get >>> returned, as I with a new basestring and a new key (consumer Secret + >>> & + token_secret) forms. >> >>> Now I want to send a new DirectMessage with POST-parameters. >> >>> My base string is the following: >>> POST&http%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1%2Fdirect_messages >>> %2Fnew.xml&oauth_consumer_key%3D..........%26oauth_nonce >>> %3D0BAEA1F7-4A0B-ABB6-AA05-345F13153349%26oauth_signature_method >>> %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1285073867%26oauth_version >>> %3D1.0%26screen_name%3Dname%26text%3DUpdatemyTwitter%26user_id >>> %3D........ >> >>> my signing Key is this: >> >>> myConsumerSecret&myTokenSecret >> >>> I send an Request on following URL: >>> http://api.twitter.com/1/direct_messages/new.xml >> >>> my POST-parameter for the Request are ths: >>> oauth_consumer_key=..............&oauth_nonce=2C5E2CF5-0AF9-7BD0- >>> C28F-34638C796700&oauth_signature=KIio37Y >>> +MTF4DIFBERv8HxUVgnQ=&oauth_signature_method=HMAC- >>> SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1285074160&oauth_version=1.0screen_name=.....&user_id=......&text=UpdateMyTwitter >> >>> After this it will open a new Window, where I enter my user data and >>> then I get an error. >> >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >>> <hash> >>> <request>/1/direct_messages/new.xml</request> >>> <error>Could not authenticate you.</error> >>> </hash> >> >>> What is wrong on my request? > -- 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
