I am creating a twitter application in iphone using oauth. But my application request for:
oauth_consumer_key,
oauth_signature_method,
oauth_signature,
oauth_timestamp,
oauth_nonce,
oauth_version,
oauth_callback,
Please anyone help me how to create all these keys for my application.
In my twitter account xauth is disabled by default. So, how can I enable it in my application?
It's highly unlikely you need to enable xAuth. The Twitter API documentation, specifically the authentication guide explain these parameters in more detail. Also have the OAuth 1.0 spec open to refer to, even if you're using a third party library- you will save your sanity if you understand the mechanics of the token exchange.
You'll need to read up about OAuth. All the fields are part of the standard. Twitter will give you the first one (oauth_consumer_key), and the version number is always 1.0. (Version 2.0 is not yet complete and Twitter doesn't use it.) The others you need to calculate. Or at least find an open source library that does it for you.
As for enabling xAuth, you need to send a message to Twitter. Sounds like they're getting more and more strict about which apps they allow, though.
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I hope you can direct me with my query.
I wish to create my own authentication method for users in my Google Apps for Work account. Currently I am using built in Google Authentication, however I wish to build my own authentication method in PHP, Phyton or .NET; language doesn't matter really. So I want users to go to the page I will create, then they will need to pass authentication and be logged to Google Apps.
I know SSO is the way to do it but after my research I found very little about how to achieve it with Google Apps. I mean there is tones of third party platforms like OneLogin etc but I would like to have something I build myself. Ideally I would like to have some examples of SSO which works with GAFW so I could figure out the rest myself. I read somewhere that building own SSO portal it's not a piece of cake and also found an article that you can create something based on oAuth2.0 instead. So tried research about oAuth2.0 but all documentation I found is about authenticating to the application that I build using Google Apps Credentials, where I want the opposite; to be able to access Google Apps using the app that I build.
Hope someone could direct me to some examples or documentation or explain the process of learning curve to get my head around this project of building SSO for GAFW.
If you want to write your own Auth system and become the Identity Provider (IdP), you need to use SAML as that is the only supported method for now.
Here are the step by step instructions
I have one problem regarding OAuth integration in iPhone App.
Can anyone help me how to integrate OAuth 2.0 with facebook in iPhone ?
I have referred so many sites about OAuth but I haven't got satisfied answer yet. I referred this question of stackoverflow. There is one good option about ShareKit. But my client wants only OAuth 2.0.
I downloaded framework from google code. I integrated it in my application. But How to use it ? Without guidance I can't implement it in proper way.
I have got stuck between my application and 0Auth 2.0 since last 3 days. Please can anyone give me idea or demo project or any another tutorial ?
Rather than implement OAuth for Facebook, make use of the Facebook iOS SDK which makes handling Facebook Auth and Requests much easier. You can read about it and download it here... http://developers.facebook.com/ios/
I just done a research
This post will really help you
Also please look at the below posts
iphone-facebook-oauth2-graph-api
OAuth and Facebook iPhone SDK
The framework you mentioned in your post is not for OAuth 2, but for OAuth 1.0a.
You can try the OAuth2Client we developed for talking to the SoundCloud API. It's build against draft 10 of the spec. I'm not sure which one is used by Facebook. Unfortunately the spec is not final yet and over the years different services adopted different drafts of the spec.
If you're able to argue with your client I'd try to convince him to let you go with the official iOS SDK. This gives you many benefits like automatic token refresh, single sign on via the official app & much more.
we are developing a platform with web and one iphone application. We have our own system for authentication but we want to improve it in order to support facebook and twitter login.
Through the web we haven't any problems, but through the mobile application we don't know how to manage correctly the facebook login and we don't find any tutorial or cookbook that explains what are the steps to do it in a good way.
Should the iphone application request the token from facebook and then send it to the server? Or is better take the facebook_id and then send it? Since we don't want to have two different accounts for the same person, is it necessary to check if the emails is already in database?
Any help would be much appreciate or at least one guide / tutorial in order to read about this topic.
Thanks!
"Any help would be much appreciate or at least one guide / tutorial in order to read about this topic."
For the Facebook authentication for iOS, see: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/iossdk/authentication/
1) Is it true that if you would like to have your custom dialogues to enter twitter user details that you cannot use OAuth to do that?
2) I looked at MGTwitterEngine and now I'm wondering whether it is really necessary to have more than 20 classes just to send a status update.
3) I used to use Basic Auth which worked just fine. It was very little code. Is there a way to modify that code so that it just works again?
Many thanks for your help.
You'll need to apply for xAuth from Twitter with a decent enough reason for them to allow you to use it. That will allow you to take the user's username & password using your own UI and get a token that way instead of going the web-route and directing them to a web auth page.
You'll most probably need to re-write a bunch of your basic auth methods to include all the OAuth signatures and headers into your requests. It'll be nice if they make the switch to OAuth 2 soon, it's much much easier.
I've written my own Twitter engine that uses XAuth and it's relatively simple (apart from the OAuth 1 garbage!). However it'll probably be best to use MGTwitterEngine if you're going the normal OAuth route. I'm not familiar with it but I hear good things. It depends on how you're going to use the API. Writing a simple wrapper probably won't be to hard if you're just interested in calling a few methods. It's just the OAuth 1 stuff that can get complicated; however Twitter's documentation on that is very good indeed.
If you only need to post to twitter, take a look at getsharekit.org it will save you a lot of the hassle with the integration
As for xAuth or oAuth if your application UI is heavily customised it can be well worthwhile applying for xAuth ,as your users all of a sudden will not come across twitters login pages, which are unlikely to be in keeping with the rest of your applications UI. However if your application is mainly a utility application, you will most likely be fine with the oAuth method which is easier as you do not need to apply to twitter for them to enable it
Is it possible to have a client app which can authenticate using Facebook but without requiring browser(I mean no embedded browser in the code)?? User inputs the username/password and allow access to app using the client app only.
Any Suggestions will be of great help.
Thanks,
Tara Singh
Edit: I have created app in Python which requires browser interaction. Now I want to get rid of that and do it using my client app only. Any Links/Tutorials??
Thanks Again
I know this is an old question and it's answered but I thought 'horse mouth GET'. From Facebook: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/...
Our OAuth 2.0 implementation does not
include explicit desktop app support.
However, if your desktop app can embed
a web browser (most desktop frameworks
such as .NET, AIR and Cocoa support
embedding browsers), you can use the
client-side flow with one
modification: a specific redirect_uri.
Rather than requiring desktop apps to
host a web server and populate the
Site URL in the Developer App, we
provide a specific URL you can use
with desktop apps:
https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html...[cont]
Actually the answer is absolutely not.
In order to authorize your app a user has to enter their facebook username and facebook password on facebook site and you need web browser for this. There is no way to skip this step (you can't ask what their username and password are and then exchange it automatically for access token). You can read more about this here.
absolutely yes, but, we'll need to know which programming language you want to use before we can give much advice.
For example, it's possible using httpclient for java and python to encapsulate all the functionality you need, others can chime in with libraries that they use for C, C++, perl, etc.
[edit]
search for httpclient and how it's used with python. if you run wireshark on your system, you will be able to watch the data interchange (if you don't understand the http protocol completely) and then implement that in your code.[/edit]
Some good links in this regard:
http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/289/
https://developers.google.com/identity-toolkit/
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OpenID
http://facebooktoolkit.codeplex.com/
http://csharpsdk.org/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabric/
Apparently now you can, if you're a beta tester for their newest feature: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/devices/ Reminds me of PIN's on Wifi
Yes and no,
I've had the same problem with my server. It was console only, so I had to make a solution. First I've logged in using the lobo java webbrowser. I've transfered the cookies of lobo to my server.