What does "Rogue request trapped" mean when working with MySpace OAuth? (C#)

Question

Hi All,

So, I'm extending a social media class that I have (that works with Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous and Bit.ly already) to work with MySpace. I've gotten up to the point where I can request temporary credentials, and then redirect to the authorization url. The problem is that the authorization url keeps returning an XML response with the error Rogue request trapped.

Now, I have no idea what that means, but I get the feeling it's being butt-hurt about the referring url. Since I was testing in localhost, I decided to prematurely publish the website to the domain, but it didn't do anything, still getting the same error.

Somehow, I have a feeling that MySpace is not implementing their own system right because when you signup your application you have to fill in the "originating url", which could be the problem. I think they are literally looking for the string entered in that field and try to match it to the referrer even though it's the exact same domain, just a different directory...

I hated MySpace before, but now I hate it even more for implementing and already difficult protocol (OAuth) even more stupidly than it's needed.

Anyway, I would appreciate some help on this by anyone willing.

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE:

Solution is below, but man how I wish I had a blog so I could really say what I want to say on the topic. I'm so angry because of MySpace right now...

Answer 1

Okay, so I figured it out, and the phrase "Are you F*$&ing kidding me?!?!" comes to mind. I stated how I hated MySpace above, but this just takes my hatred to a whole new level.

So, here's where the problem was. My application was redirecting to:

http://api.myspace.com/authorize/?oauth_token={Token}

BUT, MySpace doesn't like the / before the query parameters. So, by complete curiosity, I tried:

http://api.myspace.com/authorize?oauth_token={Token}

And it worked. So, here's the problem, they are using an actual page /authorize, NOT a directory like everyone else, like Twitter. It's not listed in the documentation, and really, if I didn't try what I just did, I wouldn't have figured it out.

So, for everyone else who gets the "Roque request trapped" error, make sure you don't have any "rogue" (pardon the pun) forward slashes in your URL.

Message to MySpace

PUT UP DOCUMENTATION WHICH ACTUALLY EXPLAINS HOW YOU IMPLEMENTED OAUTH AND ALL THE QUIRKS YOU'VE ADDED TO AN ALREADY BS-ish PROTOCOL!!!