On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Malte <malte....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> because I'm using the same library and was not finding the same
> problems when connecting to site streams I looked for what I was doing
> differently: Turns out, if one URL encodes the komma in the follow
> list the OAuth connection works
>
> Bye
> Malte

Hi,

Yes, another user reported this as a workaround too, I'd still like
some clarification from t'twitter as to whether the client is wrong
(my current plan will be to 'if-twitter' around the signing code ;) )

Thanks for the heads up though!

-cj

>
> On 6 Oct, 23:38, JavaJunky <ciar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The library in question is mine and not unreasonably Ruben has
>> submitted a pull-request with his fix over on github.  Unfortunately
>> this fix seems to break existing (working) OAuth consumer
>> relationships :(
>>
>> I'm actually at a bit of a loss how to progress it, I've 
>> read:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth(Signing Requests) a few times.
>> I've cross-referenced againsthttp://oauth.net/core/1.0a/Sec. 9.1.1
>> and even double checked 
>> againsthttp://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849#section-3.4.1
>> Sec. 3.4.1.3.2
>>
>> The last two resources appear to agree with each other, that the '='
>> and the '&' that join the parameter name-value pairs should appear in
>> the 'plain' but then get encoded as a whole [which would re-encode any
>> existing '%', hence a crucial difference in the twitter listed
>> strategy]
>>
>> The important bit seems to be in the OAuth 1.0 RFC Section 3.4.1.1.
>> String Construction, point 5:
>>
>>    5.  The request parameters as normalized in Section 3.4.1.3.2,
>> after
>>        being encoded (Section 3.6).
>>
>> Crucially this suggests to me that that the encoding is applied to the
>> entire normalized string, which the documentation 
>> athttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth
>> seems to suggest isn't happening on the Twitter side :(
>>
>> It is (more than likely) entirely possible that I'm doing something
>> incredibly stupid and obvious but is there anyone on the twitter side
>> that can confirm that this deviation from the 'spec' is deliberate (or
>> even better for consistency, a minor issue?)
>>
>> Many Thanks (and sorry if I'm wasting your time!)
>>  - Cj.
>>
>> On Oct 6, 6:31 pm, Ruben Fonseca <fons...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi John!
>>
>> > On Oct 6, 5:54 pm, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > It might be an OAuth encoding error with the ','. Which OAuth library
>> > > are you using?
>>
>> > That was exactly the problem! I was using node-oauth (from 
>> > herehttp://github.com/ciaranj/node-oauth/) and realized the signature was
>> > being generated wrong.
>>
>> > Patched the library and it now works great!! Thank you!!!
>
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