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Authenticated Upload via Javascript

alex bob 13 years ago • updated by Alan Schaaf (Founder) 13 years ago • 6
Hi, I am creating a webapp in javascript simply for myself to upload images to imagur under my account. I currently have the anonymous setup fine and working well in javascript. I have tried using both OAuth and cookies for a javascript authenticated upload but I haven't been unable to achieve any success, also OAuth isn't really the right technology for what I would like to do (since it is specific to my account). Is this anyway I could do this/ anything you could implement in the near future?

Thanks :)

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Alan Schaaf (Founder) 13 years ago
It sounds like the Cookie auth is what you need. How come it's not working for you? Could you send some code over to me so I can take a look?
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Alan Schaaf (Founder) 13 years ago
It sounds like the Cookie auth is what you need. How come it's not working for you? Could you send some code over to me so I can take a look?
alex bob 13 years ago
sure, here is my current code: http://jsfiddle.net/msm595/9arFd/101/ . it is a drag and drop interface, then click upload to upload the image. I have removed my password from the code.
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Alan Schaaf (Founder) 13 years ago
It doesn't look like your sending the cookie. You're just making the call to /signin and then making another call to /account/images. The two calls don't know about each other at all. You need to save the session info returned from /signin and send it with your upload.
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alex bob 13 years ago
hmm, do you know how that would work in javascript?
Alan Schaaf (Founder) 13 years ago
Sorry, I do not :( I think google might be your best bet in this case.
alex bob 13 years ago
I got an interesting error in chrome actually, i didn't notice it before: "XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://api.imgur.com/2/signin. Cannot use wildcard in Access-Control-Allow-Origin when credentials flag is true."
shaqman 13 years ago
Hi,

I am also trying to upload using the OAuth. Somehow I can't sign in. What data should I send when I'm calling the signin? I am using .net and currently generates most of the request myself.

I have tried my code with the anonymous method and it worked fine. Somehow I'm stuck with the OAuth part, specifically at sign in.

Am I missing something?
Anyone could help here?

Thanks.

PS:
This is the error shown: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><error><message>The consumer_key "xxx" token "yyy" combination does not exist or is not enabled.</message><request>/2/signin</request><method>get</method><format>xml</format><parameters>oauth_consumer_key = xxx, oauth_n</parameters></error>

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