Facebook: Getting Incorrect Signature (104) when Getting Session Key

Question

Hello there,

I am trying to use the HttpClient library (in order to call the Facebook API's REST end points) to obtain a session key and verify user...

My code is here:

RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations =
{ "classpath*:**/*applicationContext-test.xml" })
public class FacebookUserTest
{
    final String API_KEY = "9e2568d68f182a2957878f3acedd9453";
    final String SECRET = "f1298956895d39110be92a672e0d2284";
    final String TOKEN = "aa0c41aa4532053e8d0097844ab9bc7d";
    final String LOGIN = "http://www.facebook.com/login.php";
    final String HOST = "http://www.facebook.com/restserver.php";

    private static Logger log = 
        LoggerFactory.getLogger(FacebookUserTest.class);

    protected FacebookUser FacebookUser;

    @Test
    public void testFindUserBySessionKey() throws Exception
    {
        loginToFacebook();
        String sessionKey = getSessionKey();
    }

    public void loginToFacebook() throws Exception
    {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.setParams(new HttpClientParams());
        client.setState(new HttpState());

        GetMethod get = new GetMethod(LOGIN + "?api_key=" + API_KEY
            + "&v=1.0&auth_token=" + TOKEN);

        // Get login screen
        client.executeMethod(get);

        // Post credentials to login
        PostMethod post = new PostMethod(LOGIN);
        post.addParameter(new NameValuePair("api_key", API_KEY));
        post.addParameter(new NameValuePair("v", "1.0"));
        post.addParameter(new NameValuePair("auth_token", TOKEN));
        post.addParameter(new NameValuePair("email", "[email protected]"));
        post.addParameter(new NameValuePair("pass", "password"));
        client.executeMethod(post);
    }

    public String getSessionKey() throws Exception
    {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

        // Obtain session key
        String host = "http://www.facebook.com/restserver.php";
        String sessSecret = "false";
        String toMd = "api_key=" + API_KEY + "auth_token=" + TOKEN
            + "format=xmlgenerate_session_secret=" + sessSecret
            + "method=facebook.auth.getSessionv=1.0" + SECRET;
         String md5 = Md5Utils.MD5(toMd);

         PostMethod post = new PostMethod(HOST);

         NameValuePair[] data = {
            new NameValuePair("api_key", API_KEY),
            new NameValuePair("auth_token", TOKEN),
            new NameValuePair("format", "xml"),
            new NameValuePair("generate_session_secret", SECRET),
            new NameValuePair("method", "auth.getSession"),
            new NameValuePair("sig", md5), new NameValuePair("v", "1.0")
         };

         post.setRequestBody(data);
         post.setRequestHeader("Content-Type",
            "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
         post.setRequestHeader("User-Agent",
            "Facebook API PHP5 Client 1.1 (curl) 5");

         // execute method and handle any error responses.
         client.executeMethod(post);

         StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
         byte[] b = new byte[4096];

         for (int n; (n = post.getResponseBodyAsStream().read(b)) != -1;) 
         {
             sb.append(new String(b, 0, n));
         }

         String sessionId = sb.toString();
         log.warn("Session Id: " + sessionId);

         return sessionId;
     }
}

When I run my JUnit test, this is what is printed from the console:

WARN : com.myapp.FacebookUserTest - Session Id: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<error_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/
   http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd"&gt;
    <error_code>104</error_code>
    <error_msg>Incorrect signature</error_msg>
    <request_args list="true">
        <arg>
            <key>api_key</key>
            <value>9e2568d68f182a2957878f3acedd9453</value>
        </arg>
        <arg>
            <key>auth_token</key>
            <value>aa0c41aa4532053e8d0097844ab9bc7d</value>
        </arg>
        <arg>
            <key>format</key>
            <value>xml</value>
        </arg>
        <arg>
            <key>generate_session_secret</key>
            <value>f1298956895d39110be92a672e0d2284</value>
         </arg>
         <arg>
            <key>method</key>
            <value>auth.getSession</value>
         </arg>
         <arg>
             <key>sig</key>
             <value>fcf80d658f35d66396ac521da7102782</value>
         </arg>
         <arg>
             <key>v</key>
             <value>1.0</value>
          </arg>
     </request_args>
</error_response>

Could it be my MD5Utils code:

 public class Md5Utils
 {
      private static String convertToHex(byte[] data)
      {
           StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
           for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
               int halfbyte = (data[i] >>> 4) & 0x0F;
               int two_halfs = 0;
               do {
                   if ((0 <= halfbyte) && (halfbyte <= 9))
                       buf.append((char) ('0' + halfbyte));
                   else
                      buf.append((char) ('a' + (halfbyte - 10)));
                      halfbyte = data[i] & 0x0F;
               }
               while (two_halfs++ < 1);
            }
        return buf.toString();
      }

  public static String MD5(String text) 
  throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
      MessageDigest md;
      md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
      byte[] md5hash = new byte[32];
      md.update(text.getBytes("iso-8859-1"), 0, text.length());
      md5hash = md.digest();
      return convertToHex(md5hash);
   }
}

What am I possibly doing wrong to generate an incorrect signature?

Would really appreciate it if someone could help me or point me in the right direction...

Happy programming and thanks for reading!

Answer 1

Try this

    string GenerateSignature(IDictionary<string, string> parameters)
    {
        StringBuilder signatureBuilder = new StringBuilder();

        // Sort the keys of the method call in alphabetical order
        List<string> keyList = ParameterDictionaryToList(parameters);
        keyList.Sort();

        // Append all the parameters to the signature input paramaters
        foreach (string key in keyList)
            signatureBuilder.Append(String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0}={1}", key, parameters[key]));

        // Append the secret to the signature builder
        signatureBuilder.Append(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FBApiSecret"]);

        MD5 md5 = MD5.Create();
        // Compute the MD5 hash of the signature builder
        byte[] hash = md5.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(signatureBuilder.ToString().Trim()));

        // Reinitialize the signature builder to store the actual signature
        signatureBuilder = new StringBuilder();

        // Append the hash to the signature
        foreach (byte hashByte in hash)
            signatureBuilder.Append(hashByte.ToString("x2", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));

        return signatureBuilder.ToString();
    }

    string CreateHTTPParameterList(IDictionary<string, string> parameterList)
    {
        StringBuilder queryBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        parameterList.Add("api_key", ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["FBApiKey"]);
        parameterList.Add("v", "1.0");
        parameterList.Add("call_id", DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString("x", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
        parameterList.Add("sig", GenerateSignature(parameterList));
        //parameterList.Add("sig", _sig);

        // Build the query
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in parameterList)
        {
            queryBuilder.Append(kvp.Key);
            queryBuilder.Append("=");
            queryBuilder.Append(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(kvp.Value));
            queryBuilder.Append("&");
        }
        queryBuilder.Remove(queryBuilder.Length - 1, 1);

        return queryBuilder.ToString();
    }

Example usage :

        Dictionary<string, string> parameterList = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        parameterList.Add("auth_token", authCode);
        parameterList.Add("format", "json");
        parameterList.Add("method", "facebook.auth.getSession");

        string req = CreateHTTPParameterList(parameterList);

I tryed to copy / paste these codes from my old project. I hope it will be help to you.

Answer 2

you have an error in your parameter you send in generate_session_secret your secret code , it must be true or false

you set: new NameValuePair("generate_session_secret", SECRET),

there are conflict in your parameter that u set in post and the signature

Answer 3

Is it work with you? since i want to do the same but in java

Answer 4

I've the same issuecan anyone able to slove this....