Wow, my blindness to signature base string foo this morning is humbling. Thanks Tom.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Tom van der Woerdt <[email protected]> wrote: > After fixing the basic parts of your signature (please don't ever replace > %26 with only a %, it screws up the encoding) and checking at > http://quonos.nl/oauthTester/, I got : > > *Bad sorting!* > All Base String parameters (query and POST parameters) must be sorted > alphabetically. > > > Tom > > > > On 3/14/11 3:02 PM, lappynet wrote: > > Hi > > I'm using C#.NET to produce an oob client. I've fallen at the first > hurdle though as I'm failing to make the token request. > > I've gone through many iterations, and am no longer receiving a 417, > 404, or 401. This is very positive! Now my application hangs whilst > waiting for a response from twitter. (I left it running for an hour > over lunch and still nothing happened, and the code didn't appear to > want to step through.) > > I've tried with the values detailed in the documentation to have a > look at the variables that have been produced from them in my > algorithm. I think that I've traced it down to being the way I > generate the signature string: > > string signingKey = Uri.EscapeDataString(ConsumerSecret) + "&"; > HMACSHA1 hasher = new HMACSHA1(new > ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(signingKey)); > string signatureString = Convert.ToBase64String(hasher.ComputeHash(new > ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(baseString))); > > My base string is: > > POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth > %2Frequest_token&oauth_callback%3Doob%26oauth_consumer_key%XXX > %26oauth_nonce%3DNjM0MzU3MDgxMDEyMDcwODkw%26oauth_signature_method > %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1300111301%26oauth_version%3D1.0 > > Any pointers as to where I may be going wrong? > > Thanks in advance > Georgina > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
