C# OAuth library
The following code listing contains the OAuth library used in the C# code example.
using System; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Web; namespace OAuth { // Downloaded from http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/csharp/OAuthBase.cs // // Modified OAuthBase.UrlEncode method so it is public static // Modified unreservedChars so it is static const public class OAuthBase { /// <summary> /// Provides a predefined set of algorithms that are supported officially by the protocol /// </summary> public enum SignatureTypes { HMACSHA1, PLAINTEXT, RSASHA1 } /// <summary> /// Provides an internal structure to sort the query parameter /// </summary> protected class QueryParameter { private string name = null; private string value = null; public QueryParameter(string name, string value) { this.name = name; this.value = value; } public string Name { get { return name; } } public string Value { get { return value; } } } /// <summary> /// Comparer class used to perform the sorting of the query parameters /// </summary> protected class QueryParameterComparer : IComparer<QueryParameter> { #region IComparer<QueryParameter> Members public int Compare(QueryParameter x, QueryParameter y) { if (x.Name == y.Name) { return string.Compare(x.Value, y.Value); } else { return string.Compare(x.Name, y.Name); } } #endregion } protected const string OAuthVersion = "1.0"; protected const string OAuthParameterPrefix = "oauth_"; // // List of know and used oauth parameters' names // protected const string OAuthConsumerKeyKey = "oauth_consumer_key"; protected const string OAuthCallbackKey = "oauth_callback"; protected const string OAuthVersionKey = "oauth_version"; protected const string OAuthSignatureMethodKey = "oauth_signature_method"; protected const string OAuthSignatureKey = "oauth_signature"; protected const string OAuthTimestampKey = "oauth_timestamp"; protected const string OAuthNonceKey = "oauth_nonce"; protected const string OAuthTokenKey = "oauth_token"; protected const string OAuthTokenSecretKey = "oauth_token_secret"; protected const string HMACSHA1SignatureType = "HMAC-SHA1"; protected const string PlainTextSignatureType = "PLAINTEXT"; protected const string RSASHA1SignatureType = "RSA-SHA1"; protected Random random = new Random(); protected static string unreservedChars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-_.~"; /// <summary> /// Helper function to compute a hash value /// </summary> /// <param name="hashAlgorithm">The hashing algoirhtm used. If that algorithm needs some initialization, like HMAC and its derivatives, they should be initialized prior to passing it to this function</param> /// <param name="data">The data to hash</param> /// <returns>a Base64 string of the hash value</returns> private string ComputeHash(HashAlgorithm hashAlgorithm, string data) { if (hashAlgorithm == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("hashAlgorithm"); } if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(data)) { throw new ArgumentNullException("data"); } byte[] dataBuffer = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data); byte[] hashBytes = hashAlgorithm.ComputeHash(dataBuffer); return Convert.ToBase64String(hashBytes); } /// <summary> /// Internal function to cut out all non oauth query string parameters (all parameters not begining with "oauth_") /// </summary> /// <param name="parameters">The query string part of the Url</param> /// <returns>A list of QueryParameter each containing the parameter name and value</returns> private List<QueryParameter> GetQueryParameters(string parameters) { if (parameters.StartsWith("?")) { parameters = parameters.Remove(0, 1); } List<QueryParameter> result = new List<QueryParameter>(); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(parameters)) { string[] p = parameters.Split('&'); foreach (string s in p) { if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(s) && !s.StartsWith(OAuthParameterPrefix)) { if (s.IndexOf('=') > -1) { string[] temp = s.Split('='); result.Add(new QueryParameter(temp[0], temp[1])); } else { result.Add(new QueryParameter(s, string.Empty)); } } } } return result; } /// <summary> /// This is a different Url Encode implementation since the default .NET one outputs the percent encoding in lower case. /// While this is not a problem with the percent encoding spec, it is used in upper case throughout OAuth /// </summary> /// <param name="value">The value to Url encode</param> /// <returns>Returns a Url encoded string</returns> public static string UrlEncode(string value) { StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); foreach (char symbol in value) { if (unreservedChars.IndexOf(symbol) != -1) { result.Append(symbol); } else { result.Append('%' + String.Format("{0:X2}", (int)symbol)); } } return result.ToString(); } /// <summary> /// Normalizes the request parameters according to the spec /// </summary> /// <param name="parameters">The list of parameters already sorted</param> /// <returns>a string representing the normalized parameters</returns> protected string NormalizeRequestParameters(IList<QueryParameter> parameters) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); QueryParameter p = null; for (int i = 0; i < parameters.Count; i++) { p = parameters[i]; sb.AppendFormat("{0}={1}", p.Name, p.Value); if (i < parameters.Count - 1) { sb.Append("&"); } } return sb.ToString(); } /// <summary> /// Generate the signature base that is used to produce the signature /// </summary> /// <param name="url">The full url that needs to be signed including its non OAuth url parameters</param> /// <param name="consumerKey">The consumer key</param> /// <param name="token">The token, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param> /// <param name="tokenSecret">The token secret, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param> /// <param name="httpMethod">The http method used. Must be a valid HTTP method verb (POST,GET,PUT, etc)</param> /// <param name="signatureType">The signature type. To use the default values use <see cref="OAuthBase.SignatureTypes">OAuthBase.SignatureTypes</see>.</param> /// <returns>The signature base</returns> public string GenerateSignatureBase(Uri url, string consumerKey, string token, string tokenSecret, string httpMethod, string timeStamp, string nonce, string signatureType, out string normalizedUrl, out string normalizedRequestParameters) { if (token == null) { token = string.Empty; } if (tokenSecret == null) { tokenSecret = string.Empty; } if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(consumerKey)) { throw new ArgumentNullException("consumerKey"); } if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(httpMethod)) { throw new ArgumentNullException("httpMethod"); } if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(signatureType)) { throw new ArgumentNullException("signatureType"); } normalizedUrl = null; normalizedRequestParameters = null; List<QueryParameter> parameters = GetQueryParameters(url.Query); parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthVersionKey, OAuthVersion)); parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthNonceKey, nonce)); parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthTimestampKey, timeStamp)); parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthSignatureMethodKey, signatureType)); parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthConsumerKeyKey, consumerKey)); if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(token)) { parameters.Add(new QueryParameter(OAuthTokenKey, token)); } parameters.Sort(new QueryParameterComparer()); normalizedUrl = string.Format("{0}://{1}", url.Scheme, url.Host); if (!((url.Scheme == "http" && url.Port == 80) || (url.Scheme == "https" && url.Port == 443))) { normalizedUrl += ":" + url.Port; } normalizedUrl += url.AbsolutePath; normalizedRequestParameters = NormalizeRequestParameters(parameters); StringBuilder signatureBase = new StringBuilder(); signatureBase.AppendFormat("{0}&", httpMethod.ToUpper()); signatureBase.AppendFormat("{0}&", UrlEncode(normalizedUrl)); signatureBase.AppendFormat("{0}", UrlEncode(normalizedRequestParameters)); return signatureBase.ToString(); } /// <summary> /// Generate the signature value based on the given signature base and hash algorithm /// </summary> /// <param name="signatureBase">The signature based as produced by the GenerateSignatureBase method or by any other means</param> /// <param name="hash">The hash algorithm used to perform the hashing. If the hashing algorithm requires initialization or a key it should be set prior to calling this method</param> /// <returns>A base64 string of the hash value</returns> public string GenerateSignatureUsingHash(string signatureBase, HashAlgorithm hash) { return ComputeHash(hash, signatureBase); } /// <summary> /// Generates a signature using the HMAC-SHA1 algorithm /// </summary> /// <param name="url">The full url that needs to be signed including its non OAuth url parameters</param> /// <param name="consumerKey">The consumer key</param> /// <param name="consumerSecret">The consumer seceret</param> /// <param name="token">The token, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param> /// <param name="tokenSecret">The token secret, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param> /// <param name="httpMethod">The http method used. Must be a valid HTTP method verb (POST,GET,PUT, etc)</param> /// <returns>A base64 string of the hash value</returns> public string GenerateSignature(Uri url, string consumerKey, string consumerSecret, string token, string tokenSecret, string httpMethod, string timeStamp, string nonce, out string normalizedUrl, out string normalizedRequestParameters) { return GenerateSignature(url, consumerKey, consumerSecret, token, tokenSecret, httpMethod, timeStamp, nonce, SignatureTypes.HMACSHA1, out normalizedUrl, out normalizedRequestParameters); } /// <summary> /// Generates a signature using the specified signatureType /// </summary> /// <param name="url">The full url that needs to be signed including its non OAuth url parameters</param> /// <param name="consumerKey">The consumer key</param> /// <param name="consumerSecret">The consumer seceret</param> /// <param name="token">The token, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param> /// <param name="tokenSecret">The token secret, if available. If not available pass null or an empty string</param> /// <param name="httpMethod">The http method used. Must be a valid HTTP method verb (POST,GET,PUT, etc)</param> /// <param name="signatureType">The type of signature to use</param> /// <returns>A base64 string of the hash value</returns> public string GenerateSignature(Uri url, string consumerKey, string consumerSecret, string token, string tokenSecret, string httpMethod, string timeStamp, string nonce, SignatureTypes signatureType, out string normalizedUrl, out string normalizedRequestParameters) { normalizedUrl = null; normalizedRequestParameters = null; switch (signatureType) { case SignatureTypes.PLAINTEXT: return HttpUtility.UrlEncode(string.Format("{0}&{1}", consumerSecret, tokenSecret)); case SignatureTypes.HMACSHA1: string signatureBase = GenerateSignatureBase(url, consumerKey, token, tokenSecret, httpMethod, timeStamp, nonce, HMACSHA1SignatureType, out normalizedUrl, out normalizedRequestParameters); HMACSHA1 hmacsha1 = new HMACSHA1(); hmacsha1.Key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string.Format("{0}&{1}", UrlEncode(consumerSecret), string.IsNullOrEmpty(tokenSecret) ? "" : UrlEncode(tokenSecret))); return GenerateSignatureUsingHash(signatureBase, hmacsha1); case SignatureTypes.RSASHA1: throw new NotImplementedException(); default: throw new ArgumentException("Unknown signature type", "signatureType"); } } /// <summary> /// Generate the timestamp for the signature /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public virtual string GenerateTimeStamp() { // Default implementation of UNIX time of the current UTC time TimeSpan ts = DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0); return Convert.ToInt64(ts.TotalSeconds).ToString(); } /// <summary> /// Generate a nonce /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public virtual string GenerateNonce() { // Just a simple implementation of a random number between 123400 and 9999999 return random.Next(123400, 9999999).ToString(); } } }