I know it's rather gauche to bump one's own posts, but I'm unfortunately at a bit of a standstill here. Can any of the Twitter developers let me know if there is a way to retrieve more detailed error information from a given HTTP response? Thanks!
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 21:53, @jigglyonee <ghil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been trying to write a JavaScript OAuth module in order to write > my own twitter client (I know there are libraries out there, but it's > for my education as well as fun). > > I'm stumped, unfortunately, right at the beginning -- trying to get a > request token. I've tried GETting and POSTing to > http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token > to no avail -- it always returns "Failed to validate oauth signature > and token". > > I'm passing, hopefully, the correct parameters. A typical query string > looks like this: > > > http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_consumer_key=9CCTnLpstYI8RIxGE7yhQ&oauth_token=&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1244001043&oauth_nonce=401a5dc6-8750-4e60-890e-7ec30cdcf6a3&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=badstdQUfnlCweKJMoIohTnfKxw > > My signature base string for that looked like: > > GET%26http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token%26GET%26http%3A > %2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Foauth%2Frequest_token%26oauth_consumer_key > %3D9CCTnLpstYI8RIxGE7yhQ%26oauth_nonce > %3Db52968e8-7145-4c91-8066-563d37a1107f%26oauth_signature_method > %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1244001043%26oauth_token%3D > %26oauth_version%3D1.0 > > I'm fairly sure that the signature is being encoded correctly, as the > HMAC-SHA1 algorithm returns the same in my library and in the > javax.crypto libraries. I'm encoding using the key > "<my_consumer_secret>&" since I don't have a token secret yet. > > My question is twofold. 1) does something look amiss with this? 2) if > nothing's obvious, is there any sort of debug mode for the APIs where > we can get some more detailed error messages? > > Thanks! > > Josh > -- Internets. Serious business.
