Gotta love HTTP. In many ways very forgiving, in other ways very, very
picky. Glad you got it worked out. FYI I believe LinqToTwitter offers
the same image upload/change functionality on top of the same
OAuthBase work by Eran & Shannon.
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Thomas
Nicholas Granado schrieb:
> Simon,
>
> You would sign the request with all of the usual "oauth param"
> suspects. If I recall correctly this endpoint has no other params other
> than the 'image' param in the multi-part post body whose value would be
> the bytes of the image file. Typically I've only seen the post params
> passed into the oauth signing rigmarole when the post body is urlencoded.
>
> I hope this helps, this whole OAuth thing can be very confusing at first
> glance. If you are in C# I have my own lib for twitter basic auth/oauth
> that I've baked up, if you like I could pass you the bits.
>
> Nicholas
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> Nicholas Granado
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>
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Zaudio <si...@z-audio.co.uk
> <mailto:si...@z-audio.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>
> Nicholas,
> That's great feedback!
>
> In you opinion, how do I then sign the request? Do I use all the usual
> for the signaturebase... ie postmethod&url&nonce&etc etc
> or just postmethod&url& as David suggested?
>
> I trust that the image data does not come into the signing process,
> and that I still can post the data using iso-8859-1 encoding as I
> would normally do for uploading files?
>
> If you have these answers, then I should be able to nail this for
> our .net case.Oauth's been working great for us until this hitch...
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
>
> On Oct 18, 6:11 pm, Nicholas Granado <ngran...@gmail.com
> <mailto:ngran...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Simon,
> >
> > I believe the body of your post might be incorrect. It should look
> like
> > this:
> >
> > POST /account/update_profile_image.xml HTTP/1.1
> > Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
> > boundary=----------------------------8cbed79c91b24f3
> > Host: twitter.com <http://twitter.com>
> > Content-Length: 3863(this will probably change now..)
> >
> > ------------------------------8cbed79c91b24f3
> > Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image"; filename="test.jpg"
> > Content-Type: image/jpeg
> >
> > (there's a few K of binary data here, the contents of the file)
> > ------------------------------8cbed79c91b24f3
> >
> > The rest of the OAuth variables should be passed on the query string.
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nicholas
> > ---
> > Nicholas Granado
> > email: ngran...@gmail.com <mailto:ngran...@gmail.com>
> > twitter: heatxsink
> > web: http://nickgranado.com
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Zaudio <si...@z-audio.co.uk
> <mailto:si...@z-audio.co.uk>> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi David,
> >
> > > I found your excellent post hoping that it would solve the same
> > > challenge for my app: updating profile image via Oauth... using
> > > similar .net base to yourself...
> > > BUT I just get the 401 all the time... despite taking your advice to
> > > just sign with the HTTPmethod & URL.... My post data is laid out
> much
> > > like yours... though I never got that 500 error...
> >
> > > I've tried all sorts... dropping the & off the end.... different
> > > encodings...
> >
> > > What encoding did you use to encode your image, and then to post the
> > > request?
> >
> > > Does it still work for you... or did this get broken when Twitter
> > > 'fixed' their Oauth implementation?
> >
> > > Can anyone else advise if they have got this working and where I
> might
> > > be going wrong?
> >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > > Simon (Zaudio)
> >
> > > On Aug 19, 11:40 pm, David Carson <carson63...@gmail.com