Question

Getting authentication errors when I try and obtain my upload authorization token
https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_error_responses

Using a packet sniffer, my first error message is>

401 Token invalid - Invalid token: Cannot parse AuthSub token:

In addition to perhaps improperly formatted Auth key value, I’m wondering exactly what headers I should be including for my upload auth request.

I am using the following though think clientId has been deprecated

 "Authorization", "GoogleLogin auth=\"" + authToken + "\""
"X-GData-Client", clientId
"X-GData-Key", "key=" + devKey

---

After changing

"Authorization", "AuthSub token="+authToken

to

Authorization", "GoogleLogin auth="+authToken

in my request I no longer get ‘Cannot parse AuthSub token’ error message but

I still get

Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://gdata.youtube.com/action/GetUploadToken

<errors>
<error>
    <domain>yt:authentication</domain>
    <code>Unknown</code>
</error>
</errors>

Stumped. Would really appreciate any feedback as I’m not even certain now where my error(s) exist!

Answer 1

ok working but not really sure how:)

Am using these 2 headers in my POST request to
‘http://gdata.youtube.com/action/GetUploadToken’

"Authorization",  "GoogleLogin auth="+authToken
"X-GData-Key", "key=" + devKey

And also needed to associate my youtube user developer credentials with a channel

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/youtube-api-gdata/76x8vaADJWM/36O05FD7mC0J

A packet sniffer or at least adding support to read the XMl error responses is essential!