I need to add a button ‘Sign in with Twitter’ to my website.
I created an app and created access token. I checked the option “Allow this application to be used to Sign in with Twitter” in the settings.
Then I went through this tutorial: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/implementing-sign-twitter
This is my C# code for “Step 1: Obtaining a request token”:
var oauth_token_secret = "AAA";
var oauth_consumer_key = "AAA";
var oauth_consumer_secret = "AAA";
// oauth implementation details
var oauth_version = "1.0";
var oauth_signature_method = "HMAC-SHA1";
// unique request details
var oauth_nonce = Convert.ToBase64String(
new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString()));
var timeSpan = DateTime.UtcNow
- new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
var oauth_timestamp = Convert.ToInt64(timeSpan.TotalSeconds).ToString();
var resource_url = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token";
var oauth_callback = "http://localhost:1532/OAuthDemo/DefaultTwitter.aspx";
// create oauth signature
var baseFormat = "oauth_consumer_key={0}&oauth_nonce={1}&oauth_signature_method={2}" +
"&oauth_timestamp={3}&oauth_consumer_key={4}&oauth_version={5}";
var baseString = string.Format(baseFormat,
oauth_consumer_key,
oauth_nonce,
oauth_signature_method,
oauth_timestamp,
oauth_consumer_key,
oauth_version
);
baseString = string.Concat("POST&", Uri.EscapeDataString(resource_url), "&", Uri.EscapeDataString(baseString));
var signingKey = string.Concat(Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_secret),
"&", Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_token_secret));
string oauth_signature;
using (HMACSHA1 hasher = new HMACSHA1(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(signingKey)))
{
oauth_signature = Convert.ToBase64String(
hasher.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(baseString)));
}
// create the request header
var headerFormat = "OAuth oauth_callback=\"{0}\", oauth_consumer_key=\"{1}\", oauth_nonce=\"{2}\", oauth_signature=\"{3}\"," +
" oauth_signature_method=\"{4}\", oauth_timestamp=\"{5}\", oauth_version=\"{6}\"";
var authHeader = string.Format(headerFormat,
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_callback),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_key),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_nonce),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature_method),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_timestamp),
Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_version)
);
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(resource_url);
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authHeader);
//request.Method = "GET";
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
I used values for oauth_token_secret , oauth_consumer_key and oauth_consumer_secret taken from application page’s ‘OAuth Tool’ tab.
After running the code, I’m getting response as “Unauthorized”. Is there something I’m missing?