Launchpad itself

Connecting to API and doing requests

Asked by João Pereira

Hello,
I am building a Ruby gem to connect to launchpad, and i am following the instructions on the API, but i get to a step where i cannot go further. These are the steps that i was able to do:
1 - I request the token and my application open the login of launchpad,
2 - I enter my credentials there and select the access
3 - Login redirects again to my application and i convert my request token into an access token
4 - I get the access token back.
Now the problems start

This is my request for the access token
 Data: oauth_consumer_key=baboon&oauth_token=4QTnLTbq2nrfRr7gDmGX&oauth_signature_method=PLAINTEXT&oauth_timestamp=1428074226&oauth_nonce=KBS938Uv5m9J8ep1iMQ102zqXypCW4ZXADgJCRK4c&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=%2639LHB60L5xqc7k3kwVHSLKD0cnFCjcC5GxDtGRpRpBWpGFhskFklD4j1SJdDPMFgZZvlWqD4n4L7fMz7

The answer is:
oauth_token=3DdcJk9tnftMp7Wtwhvd&oauth_token_secret=zz9ww6xLJ566TP8CSqC5gh9g5jvlDKFnnRC6TLvjCHPqpL5KRrbchPFPL19fRnMQxJZ0Np3q2cSdxtd8&lp.context=None

Which looks ok. After this i try to do a get request to people/+me with the following headers:
Sending: GET http://launchpad.net:443/people/+me
Header: accept: application/json
Header: accept-encoding: gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3
Header: user-agent: OAuth gem v0.4.7
Header: authorization: OAuth realm="https://api.launchpad.net/", oauth_consumer_key="baboon", oauth_nonce="Us2AKZlaxM7wLGUhqslkiTf2XtiW3rej7XTtw6VcgWI", oauth_signature="%26zz9ww6xLJ566TP8CSqC5gh9g5jvlDKFnnRC6TLvjCHPqpL5KRrbchPFPL19fRnMQxJZ0Np3q2cSdxtd8", oauth_signature_method="PLAINTEXT", oauth_timestamp="1428074228", oauth_token="3DdcJk9tnftMp7Wtwhvd", oauth_version="1.0"

But i get redirected to
Header: location: https://launchpad.net/people/+me/+login
Like if my token was not able to login.....

Does anyone see any issue with these requests?

Thanks

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

The main launchpad.net webapp only supports cookie authentication, not OAuth. You need to use https://api.launchpad.net/ if you want to authenticate using OAuth. Make sure you've read through https://help.launchpad.net/API/Hacking, and try your request against https://api.launchpad.net/devel/people/+me instead.

Also, you should probably revoke the token whose secret you've just disclosed to the world.

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