You can use TwitterVB which covers nearly the complete API in .NET
(OAuth included). U find it on codeplex http://twittervb.codeplex.com/

Cheers,
Thomas

Nicholas Granado schrieb:
> Simon,
> 
> You would sign the request with all of the usual "oauth param"
> suspects.  If I recall correctly this endpoint has no other params other
> than the 'image' param in the multi-part post body whose value would be
> the bytes of the image file.  Typically I've only seen the post params
> passed into the oauth signing rigmarole when the post body is urlencoded.
> 
> I hope this helps, this whole OAuth thing can be very confusing at first
> glance.  If you are in C# I have my own lib for twitter basic auth/oauth
> that I've baked up, if you like I could pass you the bits.
> 
> Nicholas
> ---
> Nicholas Granado
> email:  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> twitter: heatxsink
> web:    http://nickgranado.com
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Zaudio <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Nicholas,
>     That's great feedback!
> 
>     In you opinion, how do I then sign the request? Do I use all the usual
>     for the signaturebase... ie postmethod&url&nonce&etc etc
>     or just postmethod&url& as David suggested?
> 
>     I trust that the image data does not come into the signing process,
>     and that I still can post the data using iso-8859-1 encoding as I
>     would normally do for uploading files?
> 
>     If you have these answers, then I should be able to nail this for
>     our .net case.Oauth's been working great for us until this hitch...
> 
>     Thanks
> 
>     Simon
> 
> 
>     On Oct 18, 6:11 pm, Nicholas Granado <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     > Simon,
>     >
>     > I believe the body of your post might be incorrect. It should look
>     like
>     > this:
>     >
>     > POST /account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1
>     > Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
>     > boundary=----------------------------8cbed79c91b24f3
>     > Host: twitter.com <http://twitter.com>
>     > Content-Length: 3863(this will probably change now..)
>     >
>     > ------------------------------8cbed79c91b24f3
>     > Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image"; filename="test.jpg"
>     > Content-Type: image/jpeg
>     >
>     > (there's a few K of binary data here, the contents of the file)
>     > ------------------------------8cbed79c91b24f3
>     >
>     > The rest of the OAuth variables should be passed on the query string.
>     >
>     > I hope this helps.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Nicholas
>     > ---
>     > Nicholas Granado
>     > email:  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     > twitter: heatxsink
>     > web:    http://nickgranado.com
>     >
>     > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Zaudio <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     >
>     > > Hi David,
>     >
>     > > I found your excellent post hoping that it would solve the same
>     > > challenge for my app: updating profile image via Oauth... using
>     > > similar .net base to yourself...
>     > > BUT I just get the 401 all the time... despite taking your advice to
>     > > just sign with the HTTPmethod & URL.... My post data is laid out
>     much
>     > > like yours... though I never got that 500 error...
>     >
>     > > I've tried all sorts... dropping the & off the end.... different
>     > > encodings...
>     >
>     > > What encoding did you use to encode your image, and then to post the
>     > > request?
>     >
>     > > Does it still work for you... or did this get broken when Twitter
>     > > 'fixed' their Oauth implementation?
>     >
>     > > Can anyone else advise if they have got this working and where I
>     might
>     > > be going wrong?
>     >
>     > > Thanks
>     >
>     > > Simon (Zaudio)
>     >
>     > > On Aug 19, 11:40 pm, David Carson <[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>     > > > Got this sorted out and working, and thought I should share
>     the two
>     > > > pitfalls which were causing me problems.
>     >
>     > > > First of all, unbelievably, the 500 Internal Server Error was
>     being
>     > > > caused by an extra carriage return between my last HTTP header
>     and the
>     > > > first multipart boundary. Seriously. I had two blank lines in
>     there
>     > > > instead of one. Removed the extra carriage return, and my 500
>     > > > vanished, being replaced by a more reasonable "(401)
>     Unauthorized -
>     > > > Incorrect signature" error.
>     >
>     > > > Secondly, the OAuth documentation seems a bit shaky when it
>     comes to
>     > > > multipart/form-data POSTs. But basically, you do NOT use any
>     of the
>     > > > POST parameters when creating your signature. And this
>     includes all of
>     > > > the OAuth-specific parameters like oauth_consumer_key,
>     > > > oauth_signature_method, etc. Bit of a security hole imho, OAuth
>     > > > implements all this complexity to avoid man-in-the-middle or
>     replay
>     > > > attacks, and as soon as you do a multipart POST it's all negated.
>     >
>     > > > So, my signature base was literally:
>     >
>     > > >
>     POST&http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Faccount%2Fupdate_profile_image.xml&
>     >
>     > > > Just the HTTP method and the URL. No parameters.
>     >
>     > > > Once I made that change to the signature generation, my
>     request went
>     > > > through fine and my avatar changed.
>     >
>     > > > Hope this helps someone!
>     >
>     > > > Cheers,
>     > > > David...
> 
> 

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