We now have oAuth/xAuth working for Progress open edge and have the
basic Twitter status and command functions operational as they were
before. You can find sample source and Progress open edge twitter
libraries we are working on now at
http://www.coresoft.com.au/coreforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=87aaa10a26a77fb99837fe711ecbaaa5;topic=38.msg43


On Nov 2, 11:22 pm, Martin Hannah <mhan...@coresoft.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Taylor,
> Now I have the Access Token and I use the explanations 
> inhttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/authto make a request on users behalf, I
> get a response from twitter:
>
> Twitter Response= {"errors":[{"code":53,"message":"Basic
> authentication is not supported"}]}
> Status= 401
> StatusTxt= Unauthorized
>
> I am using the same procedure just changing the paramaters to follow
> the example inhttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/authand signing the
> request with oauth_consumer_secret + "&" +  oauth_token_secret tied to
> my access token...
>
> Posting to:http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/update.json
>
> Authorization header parameters:
> OAuth oauth_consumer_key="1q0ZoaBf3fKFP1hSmhVNQ",
> oauth_nonce="M2XTcq44gwlMHw9VbP98FQkB7TRSc1iIX0IOiAA500B",
> oauth_signature="f6Xz1tSwO8FCvkIJu4mgXYfNvUM%3D",
> oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",
> oauth_timestamp="1288703533",
> oauth_token="46989789-6NoccKZ1NVN3wdtlRGyhQrUG3b9RcU9Tkn372uIg3",
> oauth_version="1.0", status="PostingthroughMicrosoftXMLHTTP"
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
>
>
> Martin 
> Hannahbegin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlightingwrote:
> > Hi Taylor,
>
> > Success, the missing peice of the puzzle was that we needed to send
> > the post Body, which although it was explained in documentation, we
> > thought it was there for explanation of how the values are accumulated
> > for the base string.. seems obvious now, but when your trying to do
> > this for 1st time, it wasnt obvious then.
>
> > So the find part of the send is:
> > objHTTP:send("x_auth_username=oauth_test_exec&x_auth_password=twitter-
> > xauth&x_auth_mode=client_auth").
>
> > So my last question is, should this be url encoded, because when we
> > URL encoded (as the doco suggests) it did NOT work.
>
> > Martin 
> > Hannahbegin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlightingwrote:
> > > Hi Taylor,
> > > In order to test your 1st suggestion "do you know if your HTTP
> > > transport method munges any HTTP headers or adds its own HTTP headers
> > > in any way?" we created a simple test procedure on our public web
> > > server, to simulate the google end 
> > > pointhttps://api.twitter.com/oauth/access_token.
> > > So with our test program pointing to another end point we could
> > > capture the values that googles end point might receive.
> > > The values received by our web service end point (simulator) (along
> > > with other CGI values) are:
>
> > > HTTP_AUTHORIZATION= OAuth oauth_consumer_key="TY0Js5vMc04HNqmqIkNEnQ",
> > > oauth_nonce="jGmEee2Jc0DaEK516jl6g2FSHgOgmNPqlpK43UJYXZF",
> > > oauth_signature="%2Bd2K%2FxydAtBaSETDWwXCo4LN1Js%3D",
> > > oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1288666484",
> > > oauth_version="1.0"
> > > REQUEST_METHOD=POST
>
> > > So I presume this is indicating the post request is not munged/altered
> > > in any way by the Microsoft XMLHTTP OCX when it sends the request
> > > using:
> > > > > Create "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" objHTTP .
> > > > > objHTTP:open("POST",api-atokin, false, p-username, p-password).
> > > > > objHTTP:setRequestHeader('Authorization', v-params).
> > > > > objHTTP:SetRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-
> > > > > urlencoded").
> > > > > objHTTP:send().
>
> > > Note: The syntax of the Progress code (above) that uses objHTTP is
> > > very similiar to Visual basic. In fact we used the syntax for
> > > objHTTP:open and setRequestHeader("Authorization" that you see above,
> > > in the same way as it is used in the googe examples in
> > >http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/javascript/example/AJAX.html
> > > (open this Google example page and view HTML source from lines 32 to
> > > 53..)
>
> > > We are checking the 2nd and 3rd suggestions now... and hope to have
> > > further test results posted in next few hours..
>
> > > Taylor Singletary wrote:
> > > > Hi Martin,
>
> > > > Thanks for your patience in working through xAuth with the issues you're
> > > > facing. Given the information you've provided, it's difficult to 
> > > > determine
> > > > exactly what might be amiss here.
>
> > > > I'm unfamiliar with the programming environment you are using -- do you 
> > > > know
> > > > if your HTTP transport method munges any HTTP headers or adds its own 
> > > > HTTP
> > > > headers in any way? If you utilize an access token obtained through 
> > > > other
> > > > means (such as by the procedure outlined inhttp://bit.ly/1token) are you
> > > > able to get any other kind of OAuth-based requests functional with your
> > > > OAuth library?
>
> > > > You mentioned that you successfully recreated the examples at
> > > >http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauth-- acknowledging that those values 
> > > >would
> > > > also return a 401 from our API but provide a "safe" login & password 
> > > > you can
> > > > share on a public forum, is there any way you can perform an HTTP 
> > > > capture of
> > > > the entire request cycle using those static values? This would allow us 
> > > > to
> > > > see the entire HTTP request, including headers sent/received, the raw 
> > > > POST
> > > > body, etc -- which may yield an obvious answer as to why your 
> > > > implementation
> > > > is not working.
>
> > > > Hang in there!
> > > > Taylor
>
> > > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Martin 
> > > > Hannahbegin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting<mhan...@coresoft.com.au>wrote:
>
> > > > > We had an application successfully talking to twitter for a few years
> > > > > prior to oAuth, and now converting this application to xAuth and cant
> > > > > get past the first step.
>
> > > > > The application gets a 401 "Unauthorized" response when attempting to
> > > > > get the access token.
>
> > > > > Have confirmed our program when provided with the same consumer_key
> > > > > and Secret key as on twitter documentation page
> > > > >http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauth
> > > > > produces exactly the same Singature, parameters, base string as on
> > > > >http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauthdoco page. (i.e. have done detailed
> > > > > string comparisons of output at each step to the twitter documentation
> > > > >http://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauthby placing the twitter values in a
> > > > > string variable and comparing to the values produced by our program,
> > > > > so confident these are the same) .
>
> > > > > Using our consumer and secret keys in the test site
>
> > > > >http://hueniverse.com/2008/10/beginners-guide-to-oauth-part-iv-signin...
> > > > > and compared the base string and signature results to our program and
> > > > > again they are exactly the same.
>
> > > > > Have checked the time stamp is producing correct time (based on enoch
> > > > > time) by comparing against againsthttp://unixtimestamp.com/index.php
>
> > > > > Passing my consumer_secret with & at end into signature generator
> > > > > (which as I said above seems to be producing correct results because
> > > > > we used values inhttp://dev.twitter.com/pages/xauthand it generated
> > > > > the same oauth_signature value)
>
> > > > > Base string:
> > > > > POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth
> > > > > %2Faccess_token&oauth_consumer_key%3D1q0ZoaBf3fKFP1hSmhVNQ
> > > > > %26oauth_nonce
> > > > > %3Duv3AtzLBjawzvasO3EPAU3bbR53NyHGlvLp33IRCzG8%26oauth_signature_method
> > > > > %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1288131701%26oauth_version
> > > > > %3D1.0%26x_auth_mode%3Dclient_auth%26x_auth_password%3Dxxxxxxxx
> > > > > %26x_auth_username%3Dxxxxxxxx
>
> > > > > Authorization header parameters:
> > > > > OAuth oauth_nonce="uv3AtzLBjawzvasO3EPAU3bbR53NyHGlvLp33IRCzG8",
> > > > > oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_timestamp="1288131701",
> > > > > oauth_consumer_key="1q0ZoaBf3fKFP1hSmhVNQ",
> > > > > oauth_signature="VQYSXdvrEtlvugqUpTXbCjYTNa0%3D", oauth_version="1.0"
>
> > > > > Twitter response:
> > > > > Status= 401
> > > > > StatusTxt= Unauthorized
> > > > > Headers= Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:01 GMT
> > > > > Server: hi
> > > > > Status: 401 Unauthorized
> > > > > X-Transaction: 1288128121-92836-33309
> > > > > Last-Modified: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:01 GMT
> > > > > X-Runtime: 0.00473
> > > > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> > > > > Pragma: no-cache
> > > > > X-Revision: DEV
> > > > > Expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
> > > > > Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-
> > > > > check=0
> > > > > Set-Cookie: _twitter_sess=BAh7CDoPY3JlYXRlZF9hdGwrCMdIa
> > > > > %252BorASIKZmxhc2hJQzonQWN0aW9uQ29u
> > > > > %250AdHJvbGxlcjo6Rmxhc2g6OkZsYXNoSGFzaHsABjoKQHVzZWR7ADoHaWQiJWJl
> > > > > %250AYzdlZGEzMDAwYmMwOWJhMTEwMzIyYjE1MTc5YzAw--
> > > > > f24fc1f95d728598870821f98152985632dbcc66; domain=.twitter.com; path=/
> > > > > Connection: close
>
> > > > > The actual Send procedure is: (tried procedure using both both blank
> > > > > and valid p-username and p-password)
> > > > > define var objHTTP  as com-handle.
> > > > > Create "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" objHTTP .
> > > > > objHTTP:open("POST",api-atokin, false, p-username, p-password).
> > > > > objHTTP:setRequestHeader('Authorization', v-params).
> > > > > objHTTP:SetRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-
> > > > > urlencoded").
> > > > > objHTTP:send().
>
> > > > > v-response = 'Response= '  + objHTTP:responseText + chr(10)
> > > > >                 + 'Status= '    + objHTTP:status + chr(10)
> > > > >                 + 'StatusTxt= ' + objHTTP:statusText + chr(10)
> > > > >                 + 'Headers= '   + objHTTP:getAllResponseHeaders() +
> > > > > chr(10) .
>
> > > > > I have emailed api.twitter.com and asked for them to check that I have
> > > > > xAuth enabled and they responded:
> > > > > "I can confirm that your application, client ID xxxxxxx, has xAuth
> > > > > access and I just refreshed its permissions and consumer keys for good
> > > > > measure. If you still get 401 errors when trying to use xAuth with
> > > > > these new keys, please post about it in our Developer Talk Group:
> > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk. Our
> > > > > developer advocates have been tracking some issues like these and will
> > > > > be happy to help you out there, as well as use any information you
> > > > > provide to debug any possible related issues on our side. I apologize
> > > > > for the inconvenience."
>
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