What should be sent from a client to an OAuth providor

Question

Alright, I'm in the process of making a C# application that uses an API from a website, and they use OAuth. I'm super new to OAuth, so how can I go about making a proper request. What stuff should I have in my query string. Are there any HTTP Headers that I would need to have set?

Thanks!

Answer 1

All requests will need to have the oauth_consumerkey, oauth_token, oauth_version, oauth_nonce, oauth_timestamp, oauth_signature_method, and oauth_signature added either to the querystring (for HTTP GET), form fields (for HTTP POST), or to an authorization header.

Unless you are coding to learn, you should consider implementing a pre-made library for the API. Twitterizer, for the twitter api, for example.

If you're interested, I released a small package to assist developers when creating OAuth. It will handle request signing behind the scenes. It's available on the Twitterizer Downloads page as "Standalone OAuth library".