Fair enough.

Upon further investigation, the "nonce" and "timestamp" fields aren't
being respected (they're being generated regardless of input).

seth

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jr conlin <jrcon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sure, I'll see what I can do about dumping that. (Possibly as an
> "advanced" feature.)
>
> The API Key /Shared Secret is something that we use, partly because we
> discovered a good deal of confusion about what "consumer" meant. (For
> that matter, folks didn't understand the difference between "oauth" and
> "consumer" either and would frequently swap them.) Since we provide the
> key/secret with that term, I stuck with it here.
>
> Seth Fitzsimmons wrote:
>> Hey JR.
>>
>> This is great.  It would be really helpful if you dumped the
>> normalized parameter string and the signature base string as well as
>> allowing the method to be overridden.  I've found that the signature
>> base string is usually the piece that doesn't match between
>> implementations, so being able to compare them is really valuable.
>>
>> Is there a reason that you're using the "Api key" / "Shared secret"
>> terminology instead of "Consumer key" / "Consumer secret"?
>>
>> seth
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:29 PM, jr conlin <jrcon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> My apologies for being a slug and not staying on top of the OAuth
>>> Library stuff, but I did want to pass along one tool I just pushed live.
>>>
>>> http://developer.netflix.com/resources/OAuthTest
>>>
>>> provides a third party page to prove your OAuth HMAC-SHA1 signature
>>> generation, and allows you to set the nonce and timestamp in order to
>>> validate that your signature matches the signature I'm generating.
>>>
>>> Considering the number of times I've been asked in forums about "why is
>>> my signature generated by library X being rejected?", I figured it might
>>> be helpful to have something like this.
>>>
>>> Although it's targeted for Netflix, it's obviously not restricted to
>>> only Netflix calls. It also doesn't fetch or store tokens or secrets, so
>>> you'd have to provide your own.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any questions or comments about this. (I'd love
>>> to hear that someone else had already built something like this, but the
>>> term.ie form seems to be more targeted toward fetching the request token.)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>

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