It's likely not the nonce that is invalid in this case -- or the timestamp.

In this case, the error specifically is indicating that it couldn't validate
the request.

Does the alternate 401 vs success happen with the exact same credentials, or
are you using different credentials?

Taylor

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:41 PM, andy <andreas-wilkeme...@andreazw.de>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I´m using xAuth in an ActionScript 3.0 Project.
> I still have problems that I sometimes get a successful response, and
> a couple of times a faulty response.
> If I get a bad response, then I have the HTTP status code 401 with
> following error message:
> Failed to validate oauth signature and token
>
> The values that are different are the oAuth_nonce and oAuth_timestamp.
> The oAuth_nonce is determined by a random number. This is determined
> by the uuid of the current date. Subcontent special characters such
> as: - removed. Such uuid should be unique. I wonder why I for similar
> calculations of the nonce, etc. sometimes successful and sometimes get
> a bad response!
>
> --
> 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

Reply via email to