Comments on: 2-legged OAuth Javascript Function for YQL

By: bcmoney

bcmoney — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:57:37 +0000

This is really the single most excellent OAuth and YQL tutorial I have ever read. I have used it on more than a couple occasions to prove to unbelieving managers or fellow developers that the OAuth authorization flow was possible in pure client-side JavaScript (mind you there’s a need to store some key information publicly).

As of today though, I noticed it no longer works. This may be related to the fact that OAuth 2.0 requires HTTPS (SSL) support in any libraries for the new request signing and protection process (presumably to disallow storing keys in plain view in the client).

Do you happen to know if it is possible to ever get this working again, or is the JavaScript OAuth library history, like much of Yahoo!’s original Search and Information Retrieval Web Services?

If you have any ideas on how to get this working again I would be most grateful, and CHEERS for the initial effort on the OAuth 1.0 version!

By: George

George — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:01:36 +0000

Hello there,
That’s a really goog article.

I have a question on how to use this script to obtain a signed query but retieving the source code of the specified url. I tried changing the query with the appropriate one in the sample app but i can’t find any solution to retrieve the responded source code of the queried.

Any help on this would really appreciate it!

Thank you very much

Regards,
George

By: James Wragg

James Wragg — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:28:03 +0000

Actually, make that encodeURIComponent()

**changed code in blog to reflect

By: James Wragg

James Wragg — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:15:50 +0000

Note for anyone looking to use this function: You need to correctly encode the signature, otherwise plus (+) chars are ignored as spaces:
paramList.push(“oauth_signature=”+encodeURI(theSig));

**changed code in blog to reflect

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:04:20 +0000

Paul,

I’ve stolen your code and made it into a little twitter page.

http://www.infonote.com/yqltweet.htm

It’s helped me a lot to understand the Oauth requirements, many thanks.

By: Katya

Katya — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:40:45 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It helped a lot!

By: Bobby

Bobby — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:09:24 +0000

GOOD JOB!~ this will help a lot!~

By: Mon K

Mon K — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:07:05 +0000

First, thanks.
To you and Mr. Jonathan. I finally have examples of Oauth using javascript, just to tests ideas simply without the need to do intricate things

By: Run YQL from your javascript « Jonathans stuff

Run YQL from your javascript « Jonathans stuff — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:48:35 +0000

[...] try things out away from the console and my colleague Paul has created some simple sample code for executing 2-legged oauth queries from javascript that enables you to call YQL functions without needing a server. Its as easy as: var [...]