Provided by: libnet-oauth-perl_0.28-2_all 
NAME
Net::OAuth - OAuth 1.0 for Perl
SYNOPSIS
# Web Server Example (Dancer)
# This example is simplified for illustrative purposes, see the complete code in /demo
# Note that client_id is the Consumer Key and client_secret is the Consumer Secret
use Dancer;
use Net::OAuth::Client;
sub client {
Net::OAuth::Client->new(
config->{client_id},
config->{client_secret},
site => 'https://www.google.com/',
request_token_path => '/accounts/OAuthGetRequestToken?scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fm8%2Ffeeds%2F',
authorize_path => '/accounts/OAuthAuthorizeToken',
access_token_path => '/accounts/OAuthGetAccessToken',
callback => uri_for("/auth/google/callback"),
session => \&session,
);
}
# Send user to authorize with service provider
get '/auth/google' => sub {
redirect client->authorize_url;
};
# User has returned with token and verifier appended to the URL.
get '/auth/google/callback' => sub {
# Use the auth code to fetch the access token
my $access_token = client->get_access_token(params->{oauth_token}, params->{oauth_verifier});
# Use the access token to fetch a protected resource
my $response = $access_token->get('/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full');
# Do something with said resource...
if ($response->is_success) {
return "Yay, it worked: " . $response->decoded_content;
}
else {
return "Error: " . $response->status_line;
}
};
dance;
IMPORTANT
Net::OAuth provides a low-level API for reading and writing OAuth messages.
You probably should start with Net::OAuth::Client.
ABSTRACT
OAuth is
"An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from
desktop and web applications."
In practical terms, OAuth is a mechanism for a Consumer to request protected resources
from a Service Provider on behalf of a user.
Please refer to the OAuth spec: <http://oauth.net/documentation/spec>
Net::OAuth provides:
• classes that encapsulate OAuth messages (requests and responses).
• message signing
• message serialization and parsing.
• 2-legged requests (aka. tokenless requests, aka. consumer requests), see "CONSUMER
REQUESTS"
Net::OAuth does not provide:
• Consumer or Service Provider encapsulation
• token/nonce/key storage/management
DESCRIPTION
OAUTH MESSAGES
An OAuth message is a set of key-value pairs. The following message types are supported:
Requests
• Request Token (Net::OAuth::RequestTokenRequest)
• Access Token (Net::OAuth::AccessTokenRequest)
• User Authentication (Net::OAuth::UserAuthRequest)
• Protected Resource (Net::OAuth::ProtectedResourceRequest)
• Consumer Request (Net::OAuth::ConsumerRequest) (2-legged / token-less request)
Responses
• Request Token (Net::OAuth::RequestTokenResponse)
• Access Token (Net::OAuth:AccessTokenResponse)
• User Authentication (Net::OAuth::UserAuthResponse)
Each OAuth message type has one or more required parameters, zero or more optional
parameters, and most allow arbitrary parameters.
All OAuth requests must be signed by the Consumer. Responses from the Service Provider,
however, are not signed.
To create a message, the easiest way is to use the factory methods (Net::OAuth->request,
Net::OAuth->response, Net::OAuth->message). The following method invocations are all
equivalent:
$request = Net::OAuth->request('user authentication')->new(%params);
$request = Net::OAuth->request('user_auth')->new(%params);
$request = Net::OAuth->request('UserAuth')->new(%params);
$request = Net::OAuth->message('UserAuthRequest')->new(%params);
The more verbose way is to use the class directly:
use Net::OAuth::UserAuthRequest;
$request = Net::OAuth::UserAuthRequest->new(%params);
You can also create a message by deserializing it from a Authorization header, URL, query
hash, or POST body
$request = Net::OAuth->request('protected resource')->from_authorization_header($ENV{HTTP_AUTHORIZATION}, %api_params);
$request = Net::OAuth->request('protected resource')->from_url($url, %api_params);
$request = Net::OAuth->request('protected resource')->from_hash({$q->Vars}, %api_params); # CGI
$request = Net::OAuth->request('protected resource')->from_hash($c->request->params, %api_params); # Catalyst
$response = Net::OAuth->response('request token')->from_post_body($response_content, %api_params);
Note that the deserialization methods (as opposed to new()) expect OAuth protocol
parameters to be prefixed with 'oauth_', as you would expect in a valid OAuth message.
Before sending a request, the Consumer must first sign it:
$request->sign;
When receiving a request, the Service Provider should first verify the signature:
die "Signature verification failed" unless $request->verify;
When sending a message the last step is to serialize it and send it to wherever it needs
to go. The following serialization methods are available:
$response->to_post_body # a application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST body
$request->to_url # the query string of a URL
$request->to_authorization_header # the value of an HTTP Authorization header
$request->to_hash # a hash that could be used for some other serialization
API PARAMETERS vs MESSAGE PARAMETERS
Net::OAuth defines 'message parameters' as parameters that are part of the transmitted
OAuth message. These include any protocol parameter (prefixed with 'oauth_' in the
message), and any additional message parameters (the extra_params hash).
'API parameters' are parameters required to build a message object that are not
transmitted with the message, e.g. consumer_secret, token_secret, request_url,
request_method.
There are various methods to inspect a message class to see what parameters are defined:
$request->required_message_params;
$request->optional_message_params;
$request->all_message_params;
$request->required_api_params;
$request->optional_api_params;
$request->all_api_params;
$request->all_params;
E.g.
use Net::OAuth;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(Net::OAuth->request("protected resource")->required_message_params);
$VAR1 = [
'consumer_key',
'signature_method',
'timestamp',
'nonce',
'token'
];
ACCESSING PARAMETERS
All parameters can be get/set using accessor methods. E.g.
my $consumer_key = $request->consumer_key;
$request->request_method('POST');
THE REQUEST_URL PARAMETER
Any query parameters in the request_url are removed and added to the extra_params hash
when generating the signature.
E.g. the following requests are pretty much equivalent:
my $request = Net::OAuth->request('Request Token')->new(
%params,
request_url => 'https://photos.example.net/request_token',
extra_params => {
foo => 'bar'
},
);
my $request = Net::OAuth->request('Request Token')->new(
%params,
request_url => 'https://photos.example.net/request_token?foo=bar',
);
Calling $request->request_url will still return whatever you set it to originally. If you
want to get the request_url with the query parameters removed, you can do:
my $url = $request->normalized_request_url;
SIGNATURE METHODS
The following signature methods are supported:
• PLAINTEXT
• HMAC-SHA1
• HMAC-SHA256
• RSA-SHA1
The signature method is determined by the value of the signature_method parameter that is
passed to the message constructor.
If an unknown signature method is specified, the signing/verification will throw an
exception.
PLAINTEXT SIGNATURES
This method is a trivial signature which adds no security. Not recommended.
HMAC-SHA1 SIGNATURES
This method is available if you have Digest::HMAC_SHA1 installed. This is by far the most
commonly used method.
HMAC-SHA256 SIGNATURES
This method is available if you have Digest::SHA installed.
RSA-SHA1 SIGNATURES
To use RSA-SHA1 signatures, pass in a Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA object (or any object that can
do $o->sign($str) and/or $o->verify($str, $sig))
E.g.
Consumer:
use Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA;
use File::Slurp;
$keystring = read_file('private_key.pem');
$private_key = Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->new_private_key($keystring);
$request = Net::OAuth->request('request token')->new(%params);
$request->sign($private_key);
Service Provider:
use Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA;
use File::Slurp;
$keystring = read_file('public_key.pem');
$public_key = Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->new_public_key($keystring);
$request = Net::OAuth->request('request token')->new(%params);
if (!$request->verify($public_key)) {
die "Signature verification failed";
}
Note that you can pass the key in as a parameter called 'signature_key' to the message
constructor, rather than passing it to the sign/verify method, if you like.
CONSUMER REQUESTS
To send a request without including a token, use a Consumer Request:
my $request = Net::OAuth->request('consumer')->new(
consumer_key => 'dpf43f3p2l4k3l03',
consumer_secret => 'kd94hf93k423kf44',
request_url => 'http://provider.example.net/profile',
request_method => 'GET',
signature_method => 'HMAC-SHA1',
timestamp => '1191242096',
nonce => 'kllo9940pd9333jh',
);
$request->sign;
See Net::OAuth::ConsumerRequest
I18N
Per the OAuth spec, when making the signature Net::OAuth first encodes parameters to
UTF-8. This means that any parameters you pass to Net::OAuth, if they might be outside of
ASCII character set, should be run through Encode::decode() (or an equivalent PerlIO
layer) first to decode them to Perl's internal character sructure.
OAUTH 1.0A
Background:
<http://mojodna.net/2009/05/20/an-idiots-guide-to-oauth-10a.html>
<http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/spec/core/1.0a/drafts/3/oauth-core-1_0a.html>
Net::OAuth defaults to OAuth 1.0 spec compliance, and supports OAuth 1.0 Rev A with an
optional switch:
use Net::OAuth
$Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION = Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_0A;
It is recommended that any new projects use this switch if possible, and existing projects
move to supporting this switch as soon as possible. Probably the easiest way for existing
projects to do this is to turn on the switch and run your test suite. The Net::OAuth
constructor will throw an exception where the new protocol parameters (callback,
callback_confirmed, verifier) are missing.
Internally, the Net::OAuth::Message constructor checks $Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION and
attempts to load the equivalent subclass in the Net::OAuth::V1_0A:: namespace. So if you
instantiate a Net::OAuth::RequestTokenRequest object, you will end up with a
Net::OAuth::V1_0A::RequestTokenRequest (a subclass of Net::OAuth::RequestTokenRequest) if
the protocol version is set to PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_0A. You can also select a 1.0a subclass
on a per-message basis by passing
protocol_version => Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_0A
in the API parameters hash.
If you are not sure whether the entity you are communicating with is 1.0A compliant, you
can try instantiating a 1.0A message first and then fall back to 1.0 if that fails:
use Net::OAuth
$Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION = Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_0A;
my $is_oauth_1_0 = 0;
my $response = eval{Net::OAuth->response('request token')->from_post_body($res->content)};
if ($@) {
if ($@ =~ /Missing required parameter 'callback_confirmed'/) {
# fall back to OAuth 1.0
$response = Net::OAuth->response('request token')->from_post_body(
$res->content,
protocol_version => Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_0
);
$is_oauth_1_0 = 1; # from now on treat the server as OAuth 1.0 compliant
}
else {
die $@;
}
}
At some point in the future, Net::OAuth will default to Net::OAuth::PROTOCOL_VERSION_1_0A.
DEMO
There is a demo Consumer CGI in this package, also available online at
<http://oauth.kg23.com/>
SEE ALSO
<http://oauth.net>
Check out Net::OAuth::Simple - it has a simpler API that may be more to your liking
Check out Net::Twitter::OAuth for a Twitter-specific OAuth API
Check out WWW::Netflix::API for a Netflix-specific OAuth API
TODO
• Support for repeating/multivalued parameters
• Add convenience methods for SPs
Something like:
# direct from CGI.pm object
$request = Net::OAuth->request('Request Token')->from_cgi_query($cgi, %api_params);
# direct from Catalyst::Request object
$request = Net::OAuth->request('Request Token')->from_catalyst_request($c->req, %api_params);
# from Auth header and GET and POST params in one
local $/;
my $post_body = <STDIN>;
$request = Net::OAuth->request('Request Token')->from_auth_get_and_post(
$ENV{HTTP_AUTHORIZATION},
$ENV{QUERY_STRING},
$post_body,
%api_params
);
AUTHOR
Keith Grennan, "<kgrennan at cpan.org>"
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2009 Keith Grennan, all rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.