Yahoo OAuth Invalid Client ID - asp.net

I'm trying to connect my ASP.NET Core 3.1 web app with Yahoo. To do this, I have to set up Authorization with OAuth. I have followed a few different guides, including:
https://developer.yahoo.com/oauth2/guide/openid_connect/getting_started.html
https://www.yogihosting.com/implementing-yahoo-oauth-2-0-in-csharp-and-asp-net/
I have set up my app in Yahoo, with the configuration found in the below picture:
I then have my code set up to send the authorization request to Yahoo with the following code:
public void YahooAuth()
{
string id = configuration["YahooClientId"];
string returnUrl = "https://www.fantasysimmer.com/FootballSimulator/Sim";
string url = $"https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/request_auth?client_id={id}--&response_type=code&redirect_uri={returnUrl}";
Response.Redirect(url);
}
When this code is ran however, I get an error page with a message "Developers: Please specify a valid client and submit again.", and the URL displays:
https://api.login.yahoo.com/oauth2/error?client_id={Client_ID}--&error=unauthorized_client&error_description=invalid+client+id
I double and triple checked the Client ID, and the client ID in the URL is the same as in my Yahoo App's profile. I'm wondering now, is there an extra step that I missed in registering my app, or is there something wrong with my code?
Edit: Progress is made! The dashes after the client id must have been part of the example, or otherwise were an error. When I removed that, I started getting a new error, saying to enter in a valid request. It had something to do with my return url, because replacing that with 'oob' made it go through.

So there were two errors. The first was that the "--" after the client id were not supposed to be there. I'm not sure why in yahoo's example they have them there, but they aren't needed. The second reason is that my return uri was capitalized in my code, but not capitalized in my app settings. Now it works!

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How to fix "invalid return_url" error when creating oauth token for Trello with httr?

I want to manage my Trello cards and boards using the trelloR package but when I try to create a token with the get_token function, I get an error message on my browser : "Invalid return_url".
my_token <- get_token(key = my_key, secret = my_secret)
my_key is my personal Trello API key and my_secret is my OAuth secret. I got them on the Trello page that gives you your authentication codes, after login : https://trello.com/app-key
To use the Trello API and to access to boards, I need a token. This token is generated with OAuth1.0 by the httr package. Indeed, the function get_token do something like this, according to Jakub Chromec, author and maintainer of trelloR here :
trello.app = httr::oauth_app(
appname = "trello-app",
key = my_key,
secret = my_secret)
trello.urls = httr::oauth_endpoint(
request = "OAuthGetRequestToken",
authorize ="OAuthAuthorizeToken?scope=read&expiration=30days&name=trello-app",
access = "OAuthGetAccessToken",
base_url = "https://trello.com/1")
httr::oauth1.0_token(
endpoint = trello.urls,
app = trello.app)
When I execute this code or the function get_token with my personal key and secret, I am redirected to my browser, which is normal. As described on this page, a screen should appear asking me to allow authentication. But instead I just have an error message in the browser : "Invalid return_url".
In the RStudio console, this remains displayed :
> my_token <- get_token(my_key, my_secret)
Waiting for authentication in browser...
Press Esc/Ctrl + C to abort
I'm using httr 1.4.1, curl 4.2 and trelloR 0.6.0 with R 3.6.1 under macOS 10.15.
Some people reported the problem started after the introduction of Allowed Origins and they were able to fix it by adding the following origin:
http://localhost:1410
on the appkey page. This is a bit surprising to me as the default * should cover all origins, but there you go.
Trying this today (11/23/2019), I could not get wildcards to work as Allowed Origins. You should specify the domain of where you are running the call for authorization.
One source of confusion: The comments under "Allowed Origins" on https://trello.com/app-key refer to sites that "your application is allowed to redirect back to following the authorization flow." That was a bit confusing to me. The list should include sites you want to redirect back to IN ADDITION TO the sites you are calling Trello.authorize() from.
If you are thinking "I don't need a redirect" (and, in fact, if you are using client.js, I don't think you can specify a redirect), then those comments under "Allowed Origins" could lead you to believe you don't need to specify anything there. That would be incorrect.
Summary: Even if you want NO post-authorization re-direct, you still have to list an ORIGIN.
Also, you cannot specify file:// in Allowed Origins, so you cannot run your javascript off a local file.

Response Code From Google comes in wrong format upon on first sign in using Oauth 2.0 Authentication

Response Code received after signing on to google for first time.
[http://localhost:8080/?state=trueprompt%3Dconsent&code=4%2FjlCxJC7rg57nOG7w-0MP4M1BuQ7cbI4GLCNofMzPeQQ#][1]
Below given is the code i am using
GoogleConnectionFactory connectionFactory = new GoogleConnectionFactory("CLIENT_ID","CLIENT_SECRET");
System.out.println(connectionFactory.getScope());
connectionFactory.generateState();
OAuth2Operations oauthoperations =connectionFactory.getOAuthOperations();
OAuth2Parameters params = new OAuth2Parameters();
params.setRedirectUri("http://localhost:8080");
params.setScope("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile");
params.setState("true");
String authorizeUrl = oauthoperations.buildAuthenticateUrl(GrantType.AUTHORIZATION_CODE,params);
After receving the authorizeUrl i am pasting that directly on to the browser, then it takes me to google signin page. After signing in it redirects back to call-back url with the code parameter value, which is mentioned at the very first link.
But that response code is not working for getting the Access Token. when i again copy paste the same login url on to brwoser it responds with a different response code which is mentioned below. This time as i am already logged i don't have to login in again and it responds with a different responds code which is working fine and i am able to get the AccessToken. The difference between first and second response code is that in first it responds with 4% where as in second it comes with 4/.
http://localhost:8080/?state=true&code=4/0Y9NMh9fYAr3kfy3r1por3Py1LCdbOsIUz3fwdv78gc#
AccessGrant accessGrant = oauthoperations.exchangeForAccess("AUTHORIZATION_CODE", "http://localhost:8080",null );
Connection<Google> connection = connectionFactory.createConnection(accessGrant);
System.out.println(connection.getDisplayName());
Please help me to resolve this issue.

Gravity Forms API always 401

I am trying to use the gravity forms rest api, https://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/article/web-api/ but I receive a 401 error no matter what I try. I've tried using all the methods listed in the documentation and in Steven Henty's article, https://www.stevenhenty.com/gravity-forms-api/ but it doesn't seem to work.
If I am logged into a wordpress site as administrator should I not be able to use a link like:
http://mydomain/gravityformsapi/forms/
Thank you for any suggestions.
For mine case it was that I haven't clicked the update button "Web API" Tab.
Make sure you click update button , although it does show the API Key's but still you have to click update button to enable API.
I was getting the same thing due to some weirdness about the route endpoint. When calculating the signature you don't use a trailing slash on the route: forms/1.
But you do use a trailing slash in the URL (otherwise I got a 301 Moved Permanently):
http://demo.gravityforms.com/gravityformsapi/the_route/?api_key...
It looks odd to have /?api_key... but that is what works for me.
Here's the ruby example I was using with the demo credentials:
GravityFormsAPI.generate_URL(site: 'demo.gravityforms.com', route: 'forms/1', public_api_key: '5b225f8382', private_api_key: 'fc6d1bc71d2ebfc')
Hope this helps.
Sometimes i received intermittent 401 error after a lot of research i find this article
Azure DocumentDB Intermittent 401 error when querying REST API via Obj-c
If the signature contains + sign i received 401 error
Maybe that help other person
Sorry for my english writing
Based on the solution here I'm posting this answer.Imagine you have created the URL and it didn't work and you got 401. Then after a little time you realized the error that Opps! The parameters I was passing needed a bracket and you run the code again and you again got 401.
Why is that?
This is because the parameters which are apiKey, Signature and Expire time are the same and you only changed the other parameters with your GET request. However these three parameters are used to authenticate the user so that means the old signature which was generated to deny the permission will deny it again no matter what.
So to fix that I just changed the expire time from 1577922200 to 1577933200. I could've changed it to anything but the thing is I just need to give something new so that a new signature can be generated. So when I changed it started working.
OTHER POSSIBLE REASONWhile making the signature using SHA1 you use NSString *string_to_sign = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#:%#:%#:%#",api_key,http_method,route,expires];
as per the documentation. But in order to make CCHmac you have to pass it two things:
Key
Data
and based on the link it is created as
const char *cKey = [api_private_key cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
const char *cData = [string_to_sign cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
So what I was mistaking is that I was using API Key in cKey instead of API Private Key. So I change it as per tutorial said and it worked. Otherwise I was getting 401 not matter what I try.

Issue with Response.Redirect to another site

I'm creating a gateway app which will control access to various other apps (tools).
On visiting the site the user is identified and a list of tools they have access to is displayed. Clicking the link takes the user to the tool. The URL is affixed with a token as a querystring. The token is encrypted.
On arriving at the tool site the system checks to see if there is a querystring with a token. It checks to see if the token is valid (the date is part of the encryption). If OK then the token is also saved as cookie which is valid for 8h and access is granted.
If the user hits the Tool site directly from a bookmark the system once again checks to see if there is a token and that it is valid. If no token is passed as a querystring then the system will see if it still has a valid cookie. If there is no valid token or cookie the site invokes a response.redirect to the gateway together with two querystrings t and r. t is the tool's numeric ID and r is the Tools URL.
What should happen is that the user will be redirected to the Gateway which will check to see if the user has access to tool id t and if the have redirect back to r with a fresh token appended as a querystring.
My code has the following....
Private GatewayURL As String = "http://GatewayURL/default.aspx?t=2&r="
Private ToolURL As String = "http://ToolURL/default.aspx"
In my page load I have….
…
If AuthenticationPass = False Then
'We are not authenticated...
Response.Redirect(GatewayURL & ToolURL, True)
End If
…
Unfortunately when this is triggered I get the following error...
Invalid path for child request 'http://GatewayURL/default.aspx'. A virtual path is expected.
I've run out of ideas on resolving this.... any help appreciated.
You should URL encode your query string parameters:
Response.Redirect(GatewayURL & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(ToolURL), True)
so that you redirect to:
http://GatewayURL/default.aspx?t=2&r=http%3A%2F%2FToolURL%2Fdefault.aspx
instead of:
http://GatewayURL/default.aspx?t=2&r=http://ToolURL/default.aspx
The second is a pretty broken url.

fql.query method returns empty string in asp.net

I have developed a web application 3 months ago to show facebook users by searching username. To access facebook, I have downloaded facebook dll and got application key, and secret key from facebook.
My web application was working fine and displaying records from facebook. yesterday onwards, my application is not working fine. I could not get response when I search by name.
I have tested the fql in the facebook testAPI tool online. That time I can get response. but the same fql I used in my appliation but it could not get response from facebook when I search by name. If I search by uid i can get response from facebook.
here is my code-
facebook.Components.FacebookService fb = new FacebookService();
fb.ApplicationKey = "bfeefa69afdfe81975f0d6136ace3009";
fb.Secret = "9b672d682e1d8befd06382953fc2615b";
fb.IsDesktopApplication = false;
//the below fql gives response as xml.
//select name, profile_url from user where uid = '1730923544' -I can get response for this fql.
//the below fql does not give response as xml. But it gives empty string.
//the below fql does gives us response as xml when i try in facebook testAPI.
//select name, profile_url from user where name = 'Suresh Rajan' -I couldn't get response for this fql.
string s = fb.fql.query("select name, pic_square, profile_url from user where name = 'Suresh Rajan'");
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(str1))
Response.Write("Empty Response");
else
Response.Write(str1 + " <br />");
how to search by name in facebook fql.
thanks
r.e
Yesterday Facebook was having issues with their API that may have prevented some queries from working. Try it again today and it might work.
Here is facebook's api status page where they report any ongoing issues with the API:
http://developers.facebook.com/live_status.php
If it's still not working for you then it's likely the fix that they deployed for yesterday's issue had a bug in it. Here is a similar bug that occured a while ago that sounds just like this one: http://bugs.developers.facebook.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1359. You should open a new bug on the facebook bug tracker if that's the case since that one is old and has already been closed.

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