Hi, I'm also having this problem. I cannot login using the user's email. AFAIK, I am encoding according to the documentation. I encode the post body and then encode again when I create the signature base string.
Assume: screen name: myscrname password: m...@password <--- note I added @ to the password just to see if there was something about @ which was causing the problem email: m...@somewhere.com ======================================= Using the screen name to login works fine: Post body --------------- x_auth_mode=client_auth&x_auth_password=my %40password&x_auth_username=myscrname Sig base string ---------------------- oauth_consumer_key%3Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa%26oauth_nonce %3D3u988u37Acy3GkQWd6tJKrY3fPTefe2QYIL2WXb1R3gWP %26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp %3D1286237702%26oauth_version%3D1.0%26x_auth_mode%3Dclient_auth %26x_auth_password%3Dmy%2540password%26x_auth_username%3Dmyscrname ======================================= Using the email to login fails: Post body --------------- x_auth_mode=client_auth&x_auth_password=my %40password&x_auth_username=me%40somewhere.com Sig base string ---------------------- oauth_consumer_key%3Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa%26oauth_nonce %3Dwwsim7hj1bfMylHARpmLwQerWjJJu4Y7kgzz8jCdY3Cv6%26oauth_signature_method %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1286237782%26oauth_version %3D1.0%26x_auth_mode%3Dclient_auth%26x_auth_password%3Dmy%2540password %26x_auth_username%3Dme%2540somewhere.com On Aug 30, 7:17 am, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Email can be accepted, as long as it is properly encoded. A URL encoded POST > body by definition means that you'll already have to escape characters like > the "@" symbol for your POST body -- then for your signature base string, > it'll have to be encoded again. > > Most Twitter users sign in with their screen name and password. Do you have > a use case where users are predominantly using their email address? > > Taylor > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:10 AM, joe <joe.chan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > I have a question about getting access token. > > Can I use email address as the username? When x_auth_username = > > "x...@xxx.com", always a error msg returned: "Failed to validate oauth > > signature and token". But if user input username, there is no problem > > at all. > > So can anybody tell whether email address is accepted? Thanks a lot. > > > Joe > > > -- > > 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?hl=en -- 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
