Question

I have a problem with setting the HTTPBody of a request correctly. I’m using Oauth to communicate with our API server, the only difference is, that I need to send the data through body, not the header (using OauthConsumer.framework – http://code.google.com/p/oauthconsumer/wiki/UsingOAuthConsumer).

This is my code:

NSString *oauthHeader = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"OAuth realm=\"%@\", oauth_consumer_key=\"%@\", %@oauth_signature_method=\"%@\", oauth_signature=\"%@\", oauth_timestamp=\"%@\", oauth_nonce=\"%@\", oauth_version=\"1.0\"%@",
                         [realm URLEncodedString],
                         [consumer.key URLEncodedString],
                         oauthToken,
                         [[signatureProvider name] URLEncodedString],
                         [signature URLEncodedString],
                         timestamp,
                         nonce,
                         extraParameters];

//[self setValue:oauthHeader forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
NSLog(@"%@", oauthHeader);
[self setHTTPBody:[oauthHeader dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]];

This is the output of NSlog.

OAuth realm=””, oauth_consumer_key=”key”, oauth_signature_method=”HMAC-SHA1″, oauth_signature=”HT2UwJoW4dSNh1gXkAzQThLp0Sk%3D”, oauth_timestamp=”1340789377″, oauth_nonce=”3BDF0A1A-4FB0-40EF-95EA-5CB8B0FD07C1″, oauth_version=”1.0″

And this is what server reads, why the array is wrong? It’s not server side bug, our C# client does it without any problem.

array(1) {
  ["OAuth_realm"]=>
  string(215) """, oauth_consumer_key="key", oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1", oauth_signature="HT2UwJoW4dSNh1gXkAzQThLp0Sk=", oauth_timestamp="1340789377", oauth_nonce="3BDF0A1A-4FB0-40EF-95EA-5CB8B0FD07C1", oauth_version="1.0""
}

Answer 1

The problem seems to be that you do not separate the different key-value-pairs from each other. This is simply done by concatenating them with “&” (without quotes). You set a comma between the key-value associations.
In addition you don’t need to encapsulate the values within quotes unless you want these quotes to be a part of the value on receivers side.

Your resulting data string should then look like this:

NSString *oauthHeader = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"OAuth_realm=%@&oauth_consumer_key=%@&%@oauth_signature_method=%@&oauth_signature=%@&oauth_timestamp=%@&oauth_nonce=%@&oauth_version=1.0%@",
                     [realm URLEncodedString],
                     [consumer.key URLEncodedString],
                     oauthToken,
                     [[signatureProvider name] URLEncodedString],
                     [signature URLEncodedString],
                     timestamp,
                     nonce,
                     extraParameters];

Keep in mind that your extraparameters need to be separated by “&” too.