Comments for Paul Donnelly

Comment 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!

Comment on 2-legged OAuth Javascript Function for YQL 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

Comment on 2-legged OAuth Javascript Function for YQL by James Wragg

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

Actually, make that encodeURIComponent()

**changed code in blog to reflect

Comment on 2-legged OAuth Javascript Function for YQL 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

Comment on 2-legged OAuth Javascript Function for YQL 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.

Comment on 2-legged OAuth Javascript Function for YQL by Katya

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

Thanks for posting this. It helped a lot!

Comment on YQL and JSONP-X (aka. json-p-x, jsonpx, json-px) by Chris Heilmann

Chris Heilmann — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:21:16 +0000

Great stuff, will cross-link it from my posts on the matter.

Comment on YQL and JSONP-X (aka. json-p-x, jsonpx, json-px) by Paul Donnelly

Paul Donnelly — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:17:28 +0000

@Ryan, the main advantage is that you don’t have to loop through your JSON result to construct HTML – not that its hard to do, but just cuts out another step. Also HTML to JSON is some what lossy (read: http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=649). Using JSONP-X keeps the HTML structure you want entirely intact when using this type of JSON payload.

Comment on YQL and JSONP-X (aka. json-p-x, jsonpx, json-px) by Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:23:58 +0000

Great work, I have been using format=json&callback=callback on my YQL query for sometime now what advantage does this new way have?

Comment on YQL and JSONP-X (aka. json-p-x, jsonpx, json-px) by russell

russell — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:52:50 +0000

awesome post! keep up the gr8 work with yql and pipes! I’m experimenting with yql execute and pipes to help create neighborhood sms alerts. thanks again. look forward to more posts.