Code 32: Could not authenticate you - DELETE method

[the_glasseyes]

Can POST direct message, cannot DELETE direct message.

RWD Permissions are set to read, write, & direct message, oauth consumer key / tokens newly generated and implemented.

Using oauth-1.0a

Request 1:

Fetch(‘https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages/events/new.json’,
{ method: ‘POST’,
headers:
{ ‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’,
Accept: ‘application/json’,
Authorization:
‘OAuth oauth_consumer_key=“My_Oauth_Consumer_Key”, oauth_nonce=“Generated_Code”, oauth_signature=“Generated_Sig_1”, oauth_signature_method=“HMAC-SHA1”, oauth_timestamp=“1545191139”, oauth_token=“My_OAuth_Token”, oauth_version=“1.0”’ },
body:
‘{“event”:{“type”:“message_create”,“message_create”:{“target”:{“recipient_id”:“ID”},“message_data”:{“text”:“bboew3va7br”}}}}’ })

Response 1:

{ event:
{ type: ‘message_create’,
id: ‘Message_ID’,
created_timestamp: ‘1545191139491’,
…}

Request 2:

Fetch(‘https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages/events/destroy.json?id=Message_ID’,
{ method: ‘DELETE’,
headers:
{ ‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’,
Accept: ‘application/json’,
Authorization:
‘OAuth oauth_consumer_key=“My_Oauth_Consumer_Key”, oauth_nonce=“Generated_Code”, oauth_signature=“Generated_Sig_2”, oauth_signature_method=“HMAC-SHA1”, oauth_timestamp=“1545191139”, oauth_token=“My_OAuth_Token”, oauth_version=“1.0”’ } } )

Response 2:

{ errors: [ { code: 32, message: ‘Could not authenticate you.’ } ],
_headers:
…}

[jessicagarson]

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out here. You might want to take a look at our troubleshooting guide on error 32. You may want to double check the auth keys that you pulled from the Twitter app and that you are using the proper authentication.

One follow up question, do you have the code you are using to make the request here? Are you using a service like using Insomnia, or try using Twurl.

Hope this helps!

Jessica

[the_glasseyes]

I’m using a Jest test suite to send requests. Twurl works. As far as I’ve been able to deduce, the problem must be in the OAuth signature, as everything else is uniform. Read the resources you provided but haven’t found a solution.

Full code is here - https://github.com/draftbit/twitter-lite/blob/master/twitter.js

I’m trying to add a delete method (to the twitter.js file in that repo), which follows. Still have no idea why my generated OAuth signature would consistently work for GET and POST methods but not DELETE -

delete(resource, parameters) {
const { requestData, headers } = this._makeRequest(
“DELETE”,
resource,
parameters
);

const deleteHeaders = Object.assign({}, baseHeaders, headers);
deleteHeaders["Content-Type"] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

const url = requestData.url + "?id=" + parameters;
const obj = {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: deleteHeaders
};

return Fetch(url, {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: deleteHeaders
})
  .then(Twitter._handleResponse)
  .then(
    results => ("errors" in results ? Promise.reject(results) : results)
  );

}