cURL... I've heard about this, but I don't really know about it. Is
there a windows version as I don't have access to other OSs at work
(*sigh*)?

On Mar 14, 2:18 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>
wrote:
> Hi Georgina,
>
> Everything appears correct with your base string for this step.
>
> Are you performing this operation through a HTTP proxy of any kind? Have you
> tried producing a valid OAuth header and executed it in curl (without having
> "executed it" in C# first)? I'm not familiar with C#'s HTTP request
> libraries and the configuration options available to you in it.
>
> We were having an issue with occasionally hanging connections recently and
> it's possible that it may be related -- but if that's the case, you
> shouldn't have it occur to you every time -- it would be one out of X times.
>
> I'm curious where the connection is hanging -- while you are sending HTTP
> request headers or when your HTTP client is awaiting a response?
>
> Thanks,
> Taylor
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:02 AM, lappynet <georgina.hug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
>
> > I'm using C#.NET to produce an oob client. I've fallen at the first
> > hurdle though as I'm failing to make the token request.
>
> > I've gone through many iterations, and am no longer receiving a 417,
> > 404, or 401. This is very positive! Now my application hangs whilst
> > waiting for a response from twitter. (I left it running for an hour
> > over lunch and still nothing happened, and the code didn't appear to
> > want to step through.)
>
> > I've tried with the values detailed in the documentation to have a
> > look at the variables that have been produced from them in my
> > algorithm. I think that I've traced it down to being the way I
> > generate the signature string:
>
> > string signingKey = Uri.EscapeDataString(ConsumerSecret) + "&";
> > HMACSHA1 hasher = new HMACSHA1(new
> > ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(signingKey));
> > string signatureString = Convert.ToBase64String(hasher.ComputeHash(new
> > ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(baseString)));
>
> > My base string is:
>
> > POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2Foauth
> > %2Frequest_token&oauth_callback%3Doob%26oauth_consumer_key%XXX
> > %26oauth_nonce%3DNjM0MzU3MDgxMDEyMDcwODkw%26oauth_signature_method
> > %3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1300111301%26oauth_version%3D1.0
>
> > Any pointers as to where I may be going wrong?
>
> > Thanks in advance
> > Georgina
>
> > --
> > 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