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OAuth, getting it to work

Last post 10-26-2009 3:08 PM by killer10. 26 replies.
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  • 04-01-2008 11:52 AM In reply to

    • Fay
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    • Joined on 02-21-2008
    • Posts 20

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    I compared the POST request with the OAuth tool, looks like I need to remove open_owner_id and open_viewer_id from the parameter list before generating the digital signature.

  • 05-14-2008 9:32 AM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    Can someone please post the code to validate a Myspace request using the Ruby gem oauth?

    I have installed the gem but I am not sure how to validate that a given GET / POST  request is definitely coming from Myspace. 

    Am I right in thinking that we do not need the Ruby on Rails oauth plugin in addition to the gem just to validate that a request is coming from Myspace? 

     Thanks!

  • 05-14-2008 2:53 PM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    Finally got this to work in Ruby using OAuth gem. Below is the code for a before_filter that can be used for Ruby on Rails actions requiring oauth.

    CONSUMER_KEY = "xxxxxxxx"
    CONSUMER_SECRET = "yyyyyyyy"

     require 'oauth'
     require 'oauth/consumer'
     require 'oauth/request_proxy/action_controller_request'  

      def oauth_required
        consumer = OAuth::Consumer.new(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)

        begin
          signature=OAuth::Signature.build(request) do
            # return the token secret and the consumer secret
            [nil, consumer.secret]
          end
          pass = signature.verify
          logger.info "Signature verification returned: #{pass}"
        rescue OAuth::Signature::UnknownSignatureMethod => e
          logger.error "ERROR"+ e.to_s
        end

        render :text => "OAuth access denied", :status => :unauthorized  unless pass
      end

  • 05-15-2008 4:31 PM In reply to

    • Eric
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    • Posts 4

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    Thanks for the posting Guitarati.  I've tried with the exact code above but have not been able to get my signature to verify for the install/uninstall URLs that myspace uses.  I'm also using the spacer gem and I am able to use the REST API which also depends on the oauth gem.

     

    One thing I notice when debugging the oauth gem is that the action and controller are being used to construct the signature_base_string which is passed to the HMAC-SHA1 class.  Myspace couldn't possibly have used that when it created the signature.  I tried removing that as well in parameters_for_signature but still no dice.

     

    Seems like this should be very simple- any words of advice? 

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  • 05-20-2008 3:13 PM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

     Eric,

    Using this code, I am being able to verify install/uninstall URLs that I filled in my app information. I think that whatever URL is pinged on install/uninstall is anyway resolved into an action and controller when it hits your server so we may not need to remove them from parameters_for_signature. If you could post/message the install/uninstall URLs you are using, I can check why the same code behaves differently for us.

  • 05-23-2008 5:03 AM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    I haven't seen the action and controller being used when constructing the base string. Taking Guitarati's code sample above, after creating the signature object puts/log 'signature.signature_base_string' and compare this exactly against what you get in the oAuth tool. I've never seen the action/controller showing up in the base string and they definitely shouldn't.

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  • 06-19-2008 10:58 PM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    Hi Giri,

    Can you please share the ruby example. I tried to play with the Ruby Library and am running it lot of issues.

    Appreciate your help

  • 12-11-2008 11:35 AM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    i dont have proble
  • 05-11-2009 1:40 AM In reply to

    • Pledge
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    • Joined on 03-12-2009
    • Posts 2

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    I've been trying this technique for a few days now and verification keeps returning false, and I can't establish why. The request is on the same domain registered for the app, the key and secret are accurate. I can't think what else to try. Any ideas?
  • 10-14-2009 2:10 PM In reply to

    • Chris
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    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

    Woud love to know which gem and what code proved to be the winning combination for you.

    Thanks,

    Chris

  • 10-26-2009 3:07 PM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

     C#

    Variables static:


     
        public string consumerKey = "http://www.myspace.com/XX"; // these u need to change
        public string consumerSecret = "XXX";
        public string requestServer = "http://api.myspace.com";
        public string requestServer2 = "http://www.urdomain.com";


     Page_Load:





        string opensocial_viewer_id = Request.Params.Get("opensocial_viewer_id");
            string opensocial_owner_id = Request.Params.Get("opensocial_owner_id");
            string oauth_consumer_key = Request.Params.Get("oauth_consumer_key");
            string oauth_nonce = Request.Params.Get("oauth_nonce");
            string oauth_signature = Request.Params.Get("oauth_signature");
            string oauth_signature_method = Request.Params.Get("oauth_signature_method");
            string oauth_timestamp = Request.Params.Get("oauth_timestamp");
            string oauth_version = Request.Params.Get("oauth_version");
            string session_id = Request.Params.Get("session_id");
            string oauth_token = Request.Params.Get("oauth_token");
            string nocache = Request.Params.Get("nocache");

       Uri url = new Uri(requestServer2 + "/JSonService2.aspx?nocache=" + nocache + "&opensocial_owner_id=" + opensocial_owner_id + "&opensocial_viewer_id=" + opensocial_viewer_id);
             

                 // Instantiate OAuthBase and declare variables
                 OAuthBase oAuth = new OAuthBase();
                 string nonce = oauth_nonce;
                 string timeStamp = oauth_timestamp;
                 string normUrl = string.Empty;
                 string normParams = string.Empty;
                 string strRequest = string.Empty;

                 string signature = oAuth.GenerateSignature(url,
               consumerKey, consumerSecret, string.Empty, string.Empty,
               "GET", oauth_timestamp, oauth_nonce, OAuth.OAuthBase.SignatureTypes.HMACSHA1,
               out normUrl, out normParams);
                 /*   
    this will be done in oAuth.GenerateSignature:
    parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthVersionKey, OAuthVersion));
                 parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthNonceKey, nonce));
                 parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthTimestampKey, timeStamp));
                 parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthSignatureMethodKey, signatureType));
                 parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthConsumerKeyKey, consumerKey));
                 */
                 // Construct the OAuth authenticated REST url
                 //   strRequest = normUrl + "?" + normParams + "&" + oAuth.UrlEncode("oauth_signature") + "=" + oAuth.UrlEncode(signature);
              
                 sJSON += "signature:" + signature + "\n";
                 sJSON += "oauth_signature:" + oauth_signature + "\n";

                 sJSON += "opensocial_owner_id:" + opensocial_owner_id + "\n";
                 sJSON += "oauth_consumer_key:" + oauth_consumer_key + "\n";
                 sJSON += "oauth_nonce:" + oauth_nonce + "\n";

                 sJSON += "oauth_signature_method:" + oauth_signature_method + "\n";
                 sJSON += "oauth_timestamp:" + oauth_timestamp + "\n";
                 sJSON += "oauth_version:" + oauth_version + "\n";
                 sJSON += "oauth_token:" + oauth_token + "\n";
                 if (signature == oauth_signature)
                 {
                     sJSON = "SIGNED Request Secure";
                 }
                 else
                 {
                     sJSON = "error no f";
                 }

     

     // Note sJSON is just my return buffer

     

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  • 10-26-2009 3:08 PM In reply to

    Re: OAuth, getting it to work

     App_Code/OAuthBase.cs:

     

     

    using System;
    using System.Security.Cryptography;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Web;

    namespace OAuth
    {
        public class OAuthBase
        {

            /// <summary>
            /// Provides a predefined set of algorithms that are supported officially by the protocol
            /// </summary>
            public enum SignatureTypes
            {
                HMACSHA1,
                PLAINTEXT,
                RSASHA1
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Provides an internal structure to sort the query parameter
            /// </summary>
            protected class QueryParameter
            {
                private string name = null;
                private string value = null;

                public QueryParameter(string name, string value)
                {
                    this.name = name;
                    this.value = value;
                }

                public string Name
                {
                    get { return name; }
                }

                public string Value
                {
                    get { return value; }
                }
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Comparer class used to perform the sorting of the query parameters
            /// </summary>
            protected class QueryParameterComparer : IComparer<QueryParameter>
            {

                #region IComparer<QueryParameter> Members

                public int Compare(QueryParameter x, QueryParameter y)
                {
                    if (x.Name == y.Name)
                    {
                        return string.Compare(x.Value, y.Value);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        return string.Compare(x.Name, y.Name);
                    }
                }

                #endregion
            }

            protected const string OAuthVersion = "1.0";
            protected const string OAuthParameterPrefix = "oauth_";

            //
            // List of know and used oauth parameters' names
            //       
            protected const string OAuthConsumerKeyKey = "oauth_consumer_key";
            protected const string OAuthCallbackKey = "oauth_callback";
            protected const string OAuthVersionKey = "oauth_version";
            protected const string OAuthSignatureMethodKey = "oauth_signature_method";
            protected const string OAuthSignatureKey = "oauth_signature";
            protected const string OAuthTimestampKey = "oauth_timestamp";
            protected const string OAuthNonceKey = "oauth_nonce";
            protected const string OAuthTokenKey = "oauth_token";
            protected const string OAuthTokenSecretKey = "oauth_token_secret";

            protected const string HMACSHA1SignatureType = "HMAC-SHA1";
            protected const string PlainTextSignatureType = "PLAINTEXT";
            protected const string RSASHA1SignatureType = "RSA-SHA1";

            protected Random random = new Random();

            public string unreservedChars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_.~";

            /// <summary>
            /// Helper function to compute a hash value
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="hashAlgorithm">The hashing algoirhtm used. If that algorithm needs some initialization, like HMAC and its derivatives, they should be initialized prior to passing it to this function</param>
            /// <param name="data">The data to hash</param>
            /// <returns>a Base64 string of the hash value</returns>
            private string ComputeHash(HashAlgorithm hashAlgorithm, string data)
            {
                if (hashAlgorithm == null)
                {
                    throw new ArgumentNullException("hashAlgorithm");
                }

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(data))
                {
                    throw new ArgumentNullException("data");
                }

                byte[ dataBuffer = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
                byte[ hashBytes = hashAlgorithm.ComputeHash(dataBuffer);

                return Convert.ToBase64String(hashBytes);
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Internal function to cut out all non oauth query string parameters (all parameters not begining with "oauth_")
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="parameters">The query string part of the Url</param>
            /// <returns>A list of QueryParameter each containing the parameter name and value</returns>
            private List<QueryParameter> GetQueryParameters(string parameters)
            {
                if (parameters.StartsWith("?"))
                {
                    parameters = parameters.Remove(0, 1);
                }

                List<QueryParameter> result = new List<QueryParameter>();

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(parameters))
                {
                    string[ p = parameters.Split('&');
                    foreach (string s in p)
                    {
                        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(s) && !s.StartsWith(OAuthParameterPrefix))
                        {
                            if (s.IndexOf('=') > -1)
                            {
                                string[ temp = s.Split('=');
                                result.Add(new QueryParameter(temp[0], temp[1]));
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                result.Add(new QueryParameter(s, string.Empty));
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }

                return result;
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// This is a different Url Encode implementation since the default .NET one outputs the percent encoding in lower case.
            /// While this is not a problem with the percent encoding spec, it is used in upper case throughout OAuth
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="value">The value to Url encode</param>
            /// <returns>Returns a Url encoded string</returns>
            public string UrlEncode(string value)
            {
                StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();

                foreach (char symbol in value)
                {
                    if (unreservedChars.IndexOf(symbol) != -1)
                    {
                        result.Append(symbol);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        result.Append('%' + String.Format("{0:X2}", (int)symbol));
                    }
                }

                return result.ToString();
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Normalizes the request parameters according to the spec
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="parameters">The list of parameters already sorted</param>
            /// <returns>a string representing the normalized parameters</returns>
            protected string NormalizeRequestParameters(IList<QueryParameter> parameters)
            {
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
                QueryParameter p = null;
                for (int i = 0; i < parameters.Count; i++)
                {
                    p = parametersIdea;
                    sb.AppendFormat("{0}={1}", p.Name, p.Value);

                    if (i < parameters.Count - 1)
                    {
                        sb.Append("&");
                    }
                }

                return sb.ToString();
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Generate the signature base that is used to produce the signature
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="url">The full url that needs to be signed including its non OAuth url parameters</param>
            /// <param name="consumerKey">The consumer key</param>       
            /// <param name="token">The token, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param>
            /// <param name="tokenSecret">The token secret, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param>
            /// <param name="httpMethod">The http method used. Must be a valid HTTP method verb (POST,GET,PUT, etc)</param>
            /// <param name="signatureType">The signature type. To use the default values use <see cref="OAuthBase.SignatureTypes">OAuthBase.SignatureTypes</see>.</param>
            /// <returns>The signature base</returns>
            public string GenerateSignatureBase(Uri url, string consumerKey, string token, string tokenSecret, string httpMethod, string timeStamp, string nonce, string signatureType, out string normalizedUrl, out string normalizedRequestParameters)
            {
                if (token == null)
                {
                    token = string.Empty;
                }

                if (tokenSecret == null)
                {
                    tokenSecret = string.Empty;
                }

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(consumerKey))
                {
                    throw new ArgumentNullException("consumerKey");
                }

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(httpMethod))
                {
                    throw new ArgumentNullException("httpMethod");
                }

                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(signatureType))
                {
                    throw new ArgumentNullException("signatureType");
                }

                normalizedUrl = null;
                normalizedRequestParameters = null;

                List<QueryParameter> parameters = GetQueryParameters(url.Query);
                parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthVersionKey, OAuthVersion));
                parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthNonceKey, nonce));
                parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthTimestampKey, timeStamp));
                parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthSignatureMethodKey, signatureType));
                parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthConsumerKeyKey, consumerKey));

                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(token))
                {
                    parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthTokenKey, token));
                }

                parameters.Sort(new QueryParameterComparer());

                normalizedUrl = string.Format("{0}://{1}", url.Scheme, url.Host);
                if (!((url.Scheme == "http" && url.Port == 80) || (url.Scheme == "https" && url.Port == 443)))
                {
                    normalizedUrl += ":" + url.Port;
                }
                normalizedUrl += url.AbsolutePath;
                normalizedRequestParameters = NormalizeRequestParameters(parameters);

                StringBuilder signatureBase = new StringBuilder();
                signatureBase.AppendFormat("{0}&", httpMethod.ToUpper());
                signatureBase.AppendFormat("{0}&", UrlEncode(normalizedUrl));
                signatureBase.AppendFormat("{0}", UrlEncode(normalizedRequestParameters));

                return signatureBase.ToString();
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Generate the signature value based on the given signature base and hash algorithm
            /// </summary>
            /// <param name="signatureBase">The signature based as produced by the GenerateSignatureBase method or by any other means</param>
            /// <param name="hash">The hash algorithm used to perform the hashing. If the hashing algorithm requires initialization or a key it should be set prior to calling this method</param>
            /// <returns>A base64 string of the hash value</returns>
            public string GenerateSignatureUsingHash(string signatureBase, HashAlgorithm hash)
            {
                return ComputeHash(hash, signatureBase);
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Generates a signature using the HMAC-SHA1 algorithm
            /// </summary>       
            /// <param name="url">The full url that needs to be signed including its non OAuth url parameters</param>
            /// <param name="consumerKey">The consumer key</param>
            /// <param name="consumerSecret">The consumer seceret</param>
            /// <param name="token">The token, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param>
            /// <param name="tokenSecret">The token secret, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param>
            /// <param name="httpMethod">The http method used. Must be a valid HTTP method verb (POST,GET,PUT, etc)</param>
            /// <returns>A base64 string of the hash value</returns>
            public string GenerateSignature(Uri url, string consumerKey, string consumerSecret, string token, string tokenSecret, string httpMethod, string timeStamp, string nonce, out string normalizedUrl, out string normalizedRequestParameters)
            {
                return GenerateSignature(url, consumerKey, consumerSecret, token, tokenSecret, httpMethod, timeStamp, nonce, SignatureTypes.HMACSHA1, out normalizedUrl, out normalizedRequestParameters);
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Generates a signature using the specified signatureType
            /// </summary>       
            /// <param name="url">The full url that needs to be signed including its non OAuth url parameters</param>
            /// <param name="consumerKey">The consumer key</param>
            /// <param name="consumerSecret">The consumer seceret</param>
            /// <param name="token">The token, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param>
            /// <param name="tokenSecret">The token secret, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param>
            /// <param name="httpMethod">The http method used. Must be a valid HTTP method verb (POST,GET,PUT, etc)</param>
            /// <param name="signatureType">The type of signature to use</param>
            /// <returns>A base64 string of the hash value</returns>
            public string GenerateSignature(Uri url, string consumerKey, string consumerSecret, string token, string tokenSecret, string httpMethod, string timeStamp, string nonce, SignatureTypes signatureType, out string normalizedUrl, out string normalizedRequestParameters)
            {
                normalizedUrl = null;
                normalizedRequestParameters = null;

                switch (signatureType)
                {
                    case SignatureTypes.PLAINTEXT:
                        return HttpUtility.UrlEncode(string.Format("{0}&{1}", consumerSecret, tokenSecret));
                    case SignatureTypes.HMACSHA1:
                        string signatureBase = GenerateSignatureBase(url, UrlEncode(consumerKey), token, tokenSecret, httpMethod, timeStamp, nonce, HMACSHA1SignatureType, out normalizedUrl, out normalizedRequestParameters);

                        HMACSHA1 hmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1();
                        hmacsha1.Key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string.Format("{0}&{1}", UrlEncode(consumerSecret), string.IsNullOrEmpty(tokenSecret) ? "" : UrlEncode(tokenSecret)));

                        return GenerateSignatureUsingHash(signatureBase, hmacsha1);
                    case SignatureTypes.RSASHA1:
                        throw new NotImplementedException();
                    default:
                        throw new ArgumentException("Unknown signature type", "signatureType");
                }
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Generate the timestamp for the signature       
            /// </summary>
            /// <returns></returns>
            public virtual string GenerateTimeStamp()
            {
                // Default implementation of UNIX time of the current UTC time
                TimeSpan ts = DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
                return Convert.ToInt64(ts.TotalSeconds).ToString();
            }

            /// <summary>
            /// Generate a nonce
            /// </summary>
            /// <returns></returns>
            public virtual string GenerateNonce()
            {
                // Just a simple implementation of a random number between 123400 and 9999999
                return random.Next(123400, 9999999).ToString();
            }

        }
    }
     

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