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POSetting up Twitter OAuth without 3rd party libraries
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copied!<p>Continuation from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10673158/get-twitter-public-timeline-jsonc-no-3rd-party-libraries">Get twitter public timeline, json+C#, no 3rd party libraries</a></p> <p>I'm still new to C# and oAuth so please bear with me if I fail to understand anything</p> <p>I've created a C# class named oAuthClass, and these are the variables I currently have:</p> <pre><code> static class oAuthClass { public static void run() { int oauth_timestamp = GetTimestamp(DateTime.Now); string oauth_nonce = PseudoRandomStringUsingGUID(); string oauth_consumer_key = "consumer key here"; string oauth_signature_method = "HMAC-SHA1"; string oauth_version = "1.0"; } } </code></pre> <p>I've read up on OAuth Signatures, and I chose to use HMAC-SHA1 for now, I don't know how to generate the signature, I'm also extremely confused after reading and seeing stuff like HTTP-Encodings and Base-Strings and whatnot (I've no idea what they mean at all), but my guess is to create a URL that's "Http-encoded", like spaces->"%20"?</p> <p>In summary: -What are base-strings?</p> <p>-Am I right on the spaces->%20 example?</p> <p>-HMAC-SHA1 involves a message and a key, is the consumer secret the message? Is the consumer key the key then?</p> <p>-How to create a signature through the use of the HMAC-SHA1 algorithm</p> <p>-If I do manage to create the signature, how do I pass these values to Twitter?</p> <p>I could use </p> <pre><code>http://example.com?consumer_key=asdf&oauth_signature=signaturevalue&etc., </code></pre> <p>but I've read and apparantly people use HTTP-Headers or something (again, I don't really know what this is)</p> <p>Thank you! Again, no 3rd party libraries allowed :(</p>

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