Maybe the Question I should be asking is: "How do I make Twitter a Trusted Application?" Somebody please help!
On Oct 14, 2:04 pm, theDisciple <webstew...@scriptureseeds.org> wrote: > From my web site, when certain events occur, such as a visitor > registers, a news event happens, etc, I need to post the message > "Tweet" on Twitter.com. I have written the web application in VB.NET > 3.5 using Visual Studio 2008. > > I added all 4 required values, ConsumerKey, ConsumerSecret, > OAuthToken, and OAuthTokenSecret to the web.config file in the > "appSettings" section of the "configuration" section. > > <appSettings> > <!-- Twitter and BitLy access keys --> > <add key="ConsumerKey" value="YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY" /> > <add key="ConsumerSecret" value="YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET_KEY" /> > <add key="OAuthToken" value="YOUR_APPS_OAUTHTOKEN_KEY" /> > <add key="OAuthTokenSecret" > value="YOUR_APPS_OAUTHTOKEN_SECRET_KEY" / > > </appSettings> > I found that by going to twitter.com and signing into the account that > is using the application, then go to the "Settings" page, go to the > bottom of the page and click on the "API" menu option. Once the API > page appears you will clik on the button "2", Register An App. On the > right side on the new page, you will see a button "View Your > Applications." If you have previously registered your app, click this > button, If not fill out the appliction for a new app. Now at the View > your Applications page, select the app you want to get the > authorization keys for where is says "Edit Details". > > Now click on the button to the right that says, "Application Detail." > Here you will find your Consumer Key and your Consumer Secret Key. On > the right side of this page you will see the menu option "My Access > Token", click it and you will find your oauth_token and your > oauth_token_secret keys! > > Not that you have all the keys, put them in the "appSettings" section > of the web.config file. > > Add "Dim twConn As New TwitterVB2.TwitterAPI" at the top of the page. > > I then created a subroutine where I pass in the Tweet: > > Public Sub PostOnTwitter(ByVal Tweet As String) > 'Retrieve Keys from web.config > Dim twitterKey As String = > System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerKey") > Dim twitterSecret As String = > System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ConsumerSecret") > Dim twitterOAuthToken As String = > System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("OAuthToken") > Dim twitterOAuthTokenSecret As String = > System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("OAuthTokenSecret") > > Try > twConn.AuthenticateWith(twitterKey, twitterSecret, > twitterOAuthToken, twitterOAuthTokenSecret) > twConn.Update(Trim(Tweet)) > Catch ex As Exception > lblError.Text = "Twitter Returned: " & ex.Message > End Try > End Sub > > This code works great in an enviornment that allows at least a > "Medium"trustlevel. However it appears that many of the "new" > hosting envrionments such as "Cloud Hosting", "Web Farm", and others > do not allow thistrustlevelautomatically!However if thetrustlevel > is less than "Medium" on your host you will likely receive the error > message: > "Twitter Returned: Request for the permission of type > 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, > Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' > failed." > > I am unfamiliar with how to create alteredTrustLevelin the > web.config fiel. If anyone has found a fix for this "TrustLevel" > issue please post it! -- 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