REST statuses/update with media_ids throws exception

[avodavid]

Hello all, I use REST API to upload photo and share with custom status.

I’m able to successfully create tweet using POST statuses/update, but when I add valid media_ids parameter I get 401 unauthorized exception. I’m sure that media_id is valid because I was able to use it in twitter console: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/tools/console

Any Idea what can be the reason ?

Here’s my C# code :

        var baseFormat = "oauth_consumer_key={0}&oauth_nonce={1}&oauth_signature_method={2}" +
            "&oauth_timestamp={3}&oauth_token={4}&oauth_version={5}&status={6}&media_ids={7}";
        var baseString = string.Format(baseFormat,
                                    oauth_consumer_key,
                                    oauth_nonce,
                                    oauth_signature_method,
                                    oauth_timestamp,
                                    oauth_token,
                                    oauth_version,
                                    Uri.EscapeDataString(status),
                                    Uri.EscapeDataString(mediaID)
                                    );

        baseString = string.Concat("POST&", Uri.EscapeDataString(resource_url),
                     "&", Uri.EscapeDataString(baseString));

        var compositeKey = string.Concat(Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_secret),
                    "&", Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_token_secret));

        string oauth_signature;
        using (HMACSHA1 hasher = new HMACSHA1(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(compositeKey)))
        {
            oauth_signature = Convert.ToBase64String(
                hasher.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(baseString)));
        }

        var headerFormat = "OAuth oauth_nonce=\"{0}\", oauth_signature_method=\"{1}\", " +
               "oauth_timestamp=\"{2}\", oauth_consumer_key=\"{3}\", " +
               "oauth_token=\"{4}\", oauth_signature=\"{5}\", " +
               "oauth_version=\"{6}\"";

        var authHeader = string.Format(headerFormat,
                                Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_nonce),
                                Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature_method),
                                Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_timestamp),
                                Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_consumer_key),
                                Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_token),
                                Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_signature),
                                Uri.EscapeDataString(oauth_version)
                        );

        var postBody = "status=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(status) +"&media_ids=" + Uri.EscapeDataString(mediaID);

        ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;

        HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(resource_url);
        request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authHeader);
        request.Method = "POST";
        request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
        using (System.IO.Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream())
        {
            byte[] content = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postBody);
            stream.Write(content, 0, content.Length);
        }
        try
        {
            WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
        }
        catch { }

[SkyHighArts_Clu]

Hello Avodavid, I’m facing same problem. If you have solution please share. Thanks in advance.