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How to make an OAuth 1 Twitter API call with C# (dotnet core 3.1)

I want to be able to search for twitter handles from a dotnet core API service. I've looked at the twitter documentation for users/search.json and begged, borrowed and stolen what code examples I can from the stackoverflow, etc. (see below), but all I get back is:
{"errors":[{"code":215,"message":"Bad Authentication data."}]}
when I execute the resulting curl command.
I'm sorry the code is a bit of a mess, but can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Or better still, if there's a library which will do this for me, I've been unable to find one, that would be even better.
using Xunit;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using OAuth; // OAuth.DotNetCore, 3.0.1
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
namespace TwitterLibTest
{
public class BuildHeaderTest
{
private static readonly string consumerKey = "...";
private static readonly string consumerSecret = "...";
private static readonly string method = "GET";
private static readonly OAuthSignatureMethod oauthSignatureMethod = OAuthSignatureMethod.HmacSha1;
private static readonly string oauthVersion = "1.0a";
[Fact]
public void Header()
{
var url = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/search.json";
var generatedNonce = RandomString(32);
var generatedTimestamp = DateTimeOffset.Now.ToUnixTimeSeconds().ToString();
var oauthToken = BuildAuthToken(consumerKey, consumerSecret);
var generatedSignature = GetSignatureBaseString(method, url, generatedTimestamp, generatedNonce, consumerKey, oauthToken, oauthSignatureMethod.ToString(), oauthVersion, new SortedDictionary<string, string>());
Console.WriteLine($"curl --request GET --url '{url}?q=soccer' --header 'authorization: OAuth oauth_consumer_key=\"{consumerKey}\", oauth_nonce=\"{generatedNonce}\", oauth_signature=\"{generatedSignature}\", oauth_signature_method=\"{oauthSignatureMethod.ToString()}\", oauth_timestamp=\"{generatedTimestamp}\", oauth_token=\"{oauthToken}\", oauth_version=\"{oauthVersion}\"'");
}
private static Random random = new Random();
private static string RandomString(int length)
{
const string chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
return new string(Enumerable.Repeat(chars, length)
.Select(s => s[random.Next(s.Length)]).ToArray());
}
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35677711/generate-oauth1-signature-in-c-sharp
private static string GetSignatureBaseString(string method, string strUrl, string timeStamp,
string nonce, string strConsumer, string strOauthToken, string oauthSignatureMethod,
string oauthVersion, SortedDictionary<string, string> data)
{
//1.Convert the HTTP Method to uppercase and set the output string equal to this value.
string Signature_Base_String = method.ToUpper();
Signature_Base_String = Signature_Base_String.ToUpper();
//2.Append the ‘&’ character to the output string.
Signature_Base_String = Signature_Base_String + "&";
//3.Percent encode the URL and append it to the output string.
string PercentEncodedURL = Uri.EscapeDataString(strUrl);
Signature_Base_String = Signature_Base_String + PercentEncodedURL;
//4.Append the ‘&’ character to the output string.
Signature_Base_String = Signature_Base_String + "&";
//5.append OAuth parameter string to the output string.
var parameters = new SortedDictionary<string, string>
{
{"oauth_consumer_key", strConsumer},
{"oauth_token", strOauthToken },
{"oauth_signature_method", oauthSignatureMethod},
{"oauth_timestamp", timeStamp},
{"oauth_nonce", nonce},
{"oauth_version", oauthVersion}
};
//6.append parameter string to the output string.
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> elt in data)
{
parameters.Add(elt.Key, elt.Value);
}
bool first = true;
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> elt in parameters)
{
if (first)
{
Signature_Base_String = Signature_Base_String + Uri.EscapeDataString(elt.Key + "=" + elt.Value);
first = false;
}
else
{
Signature_Base_String = Signature_Base_String + Uri.EscapeDataString("&" + elt.Key + "=" + elt.Value);
}
}
return Signature_Base_String;
}
private string BuildAuthToken(string consumerKey, string consumerSecret)
{
var client = Client(consumerKey, consumerSecret);
var response = Get(client);
var tokenMap = Parse(response);
return tokenMap["oauth_token"];
}
private static OAuthRequest Client(string consumerKey, string consumerSecret)
{
return new OAuthRequest
{
Method = method,
Type = OAuthRequestType.RequestToken,
SignatureMethod = OAuthSignatureMethod.HmacSha1,
ConsumerKey = consumerKey,
ConsumerSecret = consumerSecret,
RequestUrl = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token",
Version = oauthVersion,
};
}
private static HttpWebResponse Get(OAuthRequest client)
{
string auth = client.GetAuthorizationHeader();
var request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(client.RequestUrl);
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", auth);
return (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse();
}
private static Dictionary<string, string> Parse(HttpWebResponse response)
{
using var stream = response.GetResponseStream() ;
using var reader = new StreamReader( stream );
var responseAsText = reader.ReadToEnd();
var map = new Dictionary<string, string>();
foreach( var token in responseAsText.Split("&"))
{
var tokens = token.Split("=");
map.Add(tokens[0], tokens[1]);
}
return map;
}
}
}

I don't think you need to do all of the signing and signature stuff separately like that - here's an example project that also uses OAuth.DotNetCore, which does "do it for you". In this case, I've used HttpWebRequest directly, instead of shelling out to use a curl command.
using System;
using OAuth;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
namespace TwitterDotNetCore
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// convenient to load keys and tokens from a config file for testing
// edit .env to add your keys and tokens (no quotation marks)
DotNetEnv.Env.Load();
string CONSUMER_KEY = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("CONSUMER_KEY");
string CONSUMER_TOKEN = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("CONSUMER_TOKEN");
string ACCESS_TOKEN = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ACCESS_TOKEN");
string ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET");
// this is the endpoint we will be calling
string REQUEST_URL = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/search.json?q=soccer";
// Create a new connection to the OAuth server, with a helper method
OAuthRequest client = OAuthRequest.ForProtectedResource("GET", CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET);
client.RequestUrl = REQUEST_URL;
// add HTTP header authorization
string auth = client.GetAuthorizationHeader();
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(client.RequestUrl);
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", auth);
Console.WriteLine("Calling " + REQUEST_URL);
// make the call and print the string value of the response JSON
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
string strResponse = reader.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(strResponse); // we have a string (JSON)
}
}
}

Turns out all I needed was https://github.com/linvi/tweetinvi and:
Auth.SetUserCredentials(APIkey, APISecretKey, AccessToken, AccessTokenSecret);
Search.SearchUsers("...").Select(u => ...);

POST request in Apple News API

I am struggling with the POST request for creating an article.
Can anybody please provide me an example value of the canonical request in C#?
The error I receive is signature issue:
{"errors":[{"code":"WRONG_SIGNATURE"}]}
From what I learnt a canonical request is build from:
Method = POST
URL = https://news-api.apple.com/channels/ChanelID/articles
Date = 2019-07-24T18:12:32Z
Content-Type = multipart/form-data
Body - Not fully understood
The Apple News API documentation says
If the request is a POST request and it includes an entity, include
the following:
The value of the Content-Type header
The full content of the entity - What is meant by this?
I want to post one test article from the json files provided in the apple's documentation.
This is the class generating the auth header:
public class Security
{
public static string AuthHeader(string method, string url, object content=null)
{
string formDataBoundary = String.Format("{0:N}", Guid.NewGuid());
var apiKeyId = Constants.AppleNewsKeyId;
var apiKeySecret = Constants.AppleNewsKeySecret;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(apiKeyId) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(apiKeySecret)) return string.Empty;
var encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
var dt = DateTime.Now.ToString(Constants.DateFormat);
var canonicalRequest = string.Format("{0}{1}{2}{3}", method, url, dt, content);
var key = Convert.FromBase64String(apiKeySecret);
var hmac = new HMACSHA256(key);
var hashed = hmac.ComputeHash(encoding.GetBytes(canonicalRequest));
var signature = Convert.ToBase64String(hashed);
var authorizaton = string.Format(#"HHMAC; key={0}; signature={1}; date={2}", apiKeyId, signature, dt);
return authorizaton;
}
}
This is the constants class:
public static class Constants
{
public static readonly string ChannelId = "myID";
public static readonly string AppleNewsBaseUri = "https://news-api.apple.com";
public static readonly string DateFormat = "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssK";
public static readonly string AppleNewsKeySecret = "myID";
public static readonly string AppleNewsKeyId = "myID";
}
And the action class which is missing code in order to have proper content instead of null passed to the AuthHeader method:
public class Action
{
public static string SendCommand(string action, string method)
{
var url = $"{Constants.AppleNewsBaseUri}{action}" + "/articles";
//string content = String.Format("{0}:{1}", "Content-Disposition", "form-data; filename=article.json; name=article.json;");
var authheader = Security.AuthHeader(method, url, null);
var request = WebRequest.Create(url);
request.PreAuthenticate = true;
request.Method = "POST";
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", authheader);
if (method.Equals("post", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data;" ;
var output = string.Empty;
try
{
string filePath = Path.GetFullPath("article.json");
using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(filePath))
{
string json = r.ReadToEnd();
dynamic jsonObj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
Byte[] bytes = encoding.GetBytes(json);
request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
Stream newStream = request.GetRequestStream();
newStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
newStream.Close();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("The file could not be read:");
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
try
{
using (var response = request.GetResponse())
{
using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
output = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
catch (WebException e)
{
using (var reader = new StreamReader(e.Response.GetResponseStream()))
{
output = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
return output;
}
public static string ReadChannel()
{
var action = $"/channels/{Constants.ChannelId}";
const string method = "POST";
return SendCommand(action, method);
}
}

Making a post request to yobit api

I am trying to make a post request to yobit api in UWP platform,this codes are working for other platforms.Here are my codes-
public async Task<RootObject> sellLimitCode()
{
RootObject track = null;
try
{
string url = "https://yobit.net/tapi/";
string parameters = "method=Trade&pair=ltc_btc&type=buy&rate=1&amount=1&nonce=" + (int)(DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalSeconds;
String strMsg = "api secret";
var uriBytes = encoding.GetBytes(parameters);
var uriBytes1 = encoding.GetBytes(strMsg);
string str_alg_name = MacAlgorithmNames.HmacSha512;
MacAlgorithmProvider obj_mac_prov = MacAlgorithmProvider.OpenAlgorithm(str_alg_name);
IBuffer buff_msg = CryptographicBuffer.CreateFromByteArray(uriBytes);
IBuffer buff_key_material = CryptographicBuffer.CreateFromByteArray(uriBytes1);
CryptographicKey hmac_key = obj_mac_prov.CreateKey(buff_key_material);
IBuffer hmac = CryptographicEngine.Sign(hmac_key, buff_msg);
byte[] digest = hmac.ToArray();
string hashText = byteToString(digest);
StringBuilder hex1 = new StringBuilder(hashText.Length * 2);
foreach (byte b in digest)
{
hex1.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
}
string sign1 = hex1.ToString();
var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
httpWebRequest.Headers["Key"] = "api key";
httpWebRequest.Headers["Sign"] = sign1;
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)await httpWebRequest.GetResponseAsync();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{ }
return track;
}
But I am getting Success:0,invalid key,method or nonce.I have tried changing everything.Still not working.

Jira Rest Api Login in C# [duplicate]

I've written below C# code to login to JIRA Rest API:
var url = new Uri("http://localhost:8090/rest/auth/latest/session?os_username=tempusername&os_password=temppwd");
var request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
if (null == request)
{
return "";
}
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.ContentLength = 200;
request.KeepAlive = false;
using (var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
}
When I execute this, application just goes on running without returning any response. Please suggest if this is the right way of calling JIRA Login using REST API

For basic authentication you need to send in the username and password in a base64-encoding. Guidelines can be found in the API examples on atlassians developer page:
https://developer.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/JIRA+REST+API+Example+-+Basic+Authentication
, if you are doing it in C# you need to send the encoded data in the header in the following format:
"Authorization: Basic [ENCODED CREDENTIALS]"
Here is a simple example:
public enum JiraResource
{
project
}
protected string RunQuery(
JiraResource resource,
string argument = null,
string data = null,
string method = "GET")
{
string url = string.Format("{0}{1}/", m_BaseUrl, resource.ToString());
if (argument != null)
{
url = string.Format("{0}{1}/", url, argument);
}
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Method = method;
if (data != null)
{
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
writer.Write(data);
}
}
string base64Credentials = GetEncodedCredentials();
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64Credentials);
HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
string result = string.Empty;
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
return result;
}
private string GetEncodedCredentials()
{
string mergedCredentials = string.Format("{0}:{1}", m_Username, m_Password);
byte[] byteCredentials = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(mergedCredentials);
return Convert.ToBase64String(byteCredentials);
}
(JiraResource is just an enum I use to decide which part of the API to use)
I hope this will help!

Here is a simpler solution which works as required:
var mergedCredentials = string.Format("{0}:{1}", username, password);
var byteCredentials = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(mergedCredentials);
var encodedCredentials = Convert.ToBase64String(byteCredentials);
using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
{
webClient.Headers.Set("Authorization", "Basic " + encodedCredentials);
return webClient.DownloadString(url);
}

If you don't want to encode your credentials in every request here is how to do it using cookies.
When requesting the cookie you don't need to add any authorization on the headers. This method will accept a JSON string with the user name and password and the URL. It will return the cookie values.
public async Task<JiraCookie> GetCookieAsync(string myJsonUserNamePassword, string JiraCookieEndpointUrl)
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
var response = await client.PostAsync(
JiraCookieEndpointUrl,
new StringContent(myJsonUserNamePassword, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"));
var json = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
var jiraCookie= JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<JiraCookie>(json);
return jArr;
}
}
public class JiraCookie
{
public Session session { get; set; }
}
public class Session
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string value { get; set; }
}
When I call it using url: http://[baseJiraUrl]/rest/auth/1/session it returns the following JSON response:
{
"session" : -{
"name" : JSESSIONID,
"value" : cookieValue
}
Keep in mind the URL above is valid in the version of JIRA I'm using and may vary depending on which version you're using. Read the JIRA API documentation for the correct URL for the version you are using. I'm using the following:
https://docs.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/api/REST/7.6.1/#auth/1/session
Remember you'll have to store your cookie and use it on every subsequent request.
Check out this answer on how add cookies to your HttpClient request: How do I set a cookie on HttpClient's HttpRequestMessage.
Once you're done with the cookie (logging out) simply send a delete http request with the same URL as the post.

I tweaked the RunQuery code so that it will run today (Apr 2018). The encrypt/decrypt referenced below is from the following link (I converted it to an extension method and threw values into environment).
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10168240/encrypting-decrypting-a-string-in-c-sharp
I successfully execute the code from LinqPad - thus the Dump() command after RunQuery
private string _baseUrl = "https://xxxxxx.atlassian.net";
private string _username = "YourLogin";
void Main()
{
RunQuery(JiraResource.project).JsonToXml().Dump();
}
public enum JiraResource { project }
private const string restApiVersion = "/rest/api/2/";
protected string RunQuery( JiraResource resource, string argument = null, string data = null, string method = "GET")
{
string url = $"{_baseUrl}{restApiVersion}{resource}";
if (argument != null) url = $"{url}{argument}/";
var request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Method = method;
if (data != null)
{
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
writer.Write(data);
}
}
string base64Credentials = GetEncodedCredentials();
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + base64Credentials);
var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
string result = string.Empty;
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
return result;
}
private string GetEncodedCredentials()
{
var encryptedPassword = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PassEncrypted");
var encryptionSalt = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PassSalt");
var password = encryptedPassword.Decrypt(encryptionSalt);
var mergedCredentials = $"{_username}:{password}";
var byteCredentials = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(mergedCredentials);
return Convert.ToBase64String(byteCredentials);
}
public static class MyExtensions
{
public static XElement JsonToXml(this string jsonData, bool isAddingHeader = true)
{
var data = isAddingHeader
? "{\"record\":" + jsonData + "}"
: jsonData;
data = data // Complains if xml element name starts numeric
.Replace("16x16", "n16x16")
.Replace("24x24", "n24x24")
.Replace("32x32", "n32x32")
.Replace("48x48", "n48x48");
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(data, "data");
var xmlResult = XElement.Parse(result.OuterXml);
return xmlResult;
}
}

For posting multipart content in Rest I use Tiny.RestClient.
var client = new TinyRestClient(new HttpClient(), "http://localhost:8090");
var strResult = await client.PostRequest("rest/auth/latest/session).
WithBasicAuthentication("username", "password")
ExecuteAsStringAsync();

static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
{
wc.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + GetEncodedCredentials());
string tasks = wc.DownloadString("yourjiraurl/search?jql=task=bug");
var taskdetails = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<TaskDetails>(tasks);
}
}
static string GetEncodedCredentials()
{
string mergedCredentials = string.Format("{0}:{1}", "UserName", "Password");
byte[] byteCredentials = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(mergedCredentials);
return Convert.ToBase64String(byteCredentials);
}

Accessing azure tables entities

Hi all i want to access azure tables entities from windows phone either using rest API or using Odata.
I have written a code but that this giving me NULL response. Every time i want to access a table entity i call GetEntity function. Below is the code that i am using.
Please if anybody know what wrong in this code or any help reply asap.
//////////// GetEntity Function.//////////
private void GetEntity(String tableName, String partitionKey, String rowKey)
{
String requestMethod = "GET";
String urlPath = String.Format("{0}(PartitionKey='{1}',RowKey='{2}')", tableName, partitionKey, rowKey);
String dateInRfc1123Format = DateTime.Now.ToString("R", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
String canonicalizedResource = String.Format("/{0}/{1}", AzureStorageConstants.Account, urlPath);
String stringToSign = String.Format(
"{0}\n\n\n{1}\n{2}",
requestMethod,
dateInRfc1123Format,
canonicalizedResource);
String authorizationHeader = CreateAuthorizationHeader(stringToSign);
HttpWebResponse response;
Uri uri = new Uri(AzureStorageConstants.TableEndPoint + urlPath);
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Method = requestMethod;
request.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ProxyAuthorization] = null;
request.Headers["Address"] = uri.ToString();
request.Headers["Method"] = requestMethod;
request.Headers["x-ms-date"]= DateTime.Now.ToString("R", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
request.Headers["x-ms-version"]= "2011-08-18";
request.Headers["Authorization"] = authorizationHeader;
request.Headers["Accept-Charset"] = "UTF-8";
request.Headers["ContentType"] = "application/atom+xml,application/xml";
request.ContentType = "application/atom+xml,application/xml";
request.Headers["DataServiceVersion"] = "1.0;NetFx";
request.Headers["MaxDataServiceVersion"] = "1.0;NetFx";
using (response = GetResponse(request))
{
Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream))
{
String responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
// GetResponse Function.
public HttpWebResponse GetResponse(HttpWebRequest request)
{
var dataReady = new AutoResetEvent(false);
HttpWebResponse response = null;
var callback = new AsyncCallback(delegate(IAsyncResult asynchronousResult)
{
response = (HttpWebResponse)request.EndGetResponse(asynchronousResult);
dataReady.Set();
});
request.BeginGetResponse(callback, request);
return response;
}
////// CreateAuthorization Function.///
private String CreateAuthorizationHeader(String canonicalizedString)
{
String signature = string.Empty;
using (HMACSHA256 hmacSha256 = new HMACSHA256(Convert.FromBase64String(AzureStorageConstants.Key)))
{
Byte[] dataToHmac = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(canonicalizedString);
signature = Convert.ToBase64String(hmacSha256.ComputeHash(dataToHmac));
}
String authorizationHeader = String.Format(
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
"{0} {1}:{2}",
AzureStorageConstants.SharedKeyAuthorizationScheme,
AzureStorageConstants.Account,
signature);
return authorizationHeader;
}
////////AzureStorageConstants.
public static class AzureStorageConstants
{
private static String TableAccount = "datablobs";
private static String cloudEndPointFormat = "http://" + TableAccount + ".table.core.windows.net/";
private static String cloudKey = "Primary Access Key";// Here actual key is written.
private static string AzureStorage_SharedKeyAuthorizationScheme = "SharedKey";
public static String Account
{
get { return TableAccount; }
}
public static string SharedKeyAuthorizationScheme
{
get { return AzureStorage_SharedKeyAuthorizationScheme; }
}
public static string Key
{
get { return cloudKey; }
}
public static String TableEndPoint
{
get { return cloudEndPointFormat; }
}
}

for solution refer to below linked i have posted the solution there http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazureconnectivity/thread/84415c36-9475-4af0-9f52-c534f5681432

I checked you code and found the GetEntity() function does have some problem with regard to creating signature to access the Windows Azure Table Storage, so I hack together the following code which does work. You can just replace your GetEntity() and add two other function included in the code below to work signature process properly.
private string GetEntity(String tableName, String partitionKey, String rowKey)
{
string result = "";
String requestMethod = "GET";
String urlPath = String.Format("{0}(PartitionKey='{1}',RowKey='{2}')",tableName, partitionKey, rowKey);
DateTime now = DateTime.UtcNow;
HttpWebResponse response;
string uri = AzureStorageConstants.TableEndPoint + urlPath;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Method = requestMethod;
request.ContentLength = 0;
request.Headers.Add("x-ms-date", now.ToString("R", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
request.Headers.Add("x-ms-version", "2009-09-19");
request.ContentType = "application/atom+xml";
request.Headers.Add("DataServiceVersion", "1.0;NetFx");
request.Headers.Add("MaxDataServiceVersion", "1.0;NetFx");
request.Headers.Add("If-Match", "*");
request.Headers.Add("Accept-Charset", "UTF-8");
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", AuthorizationHeader(requestMethod, now, request));
request.Accept = "application/atom+xml";
using (response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
Stream dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream))
{
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
return result;
}
public string AuthorizationHeader(string method, DateTime now, HttpWebRequest request)
{
string MessageSignature;
MessageSignature = String.Format("{0}\n\n{1}\n{2}\n{3}",
method,
"application/atom+xml",
now.ToString("R", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture),
GetCanonicalizedResource(request.RequestUri, AzureStorageConstants.Account)
);
byte[] SignatureBytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(MessageSignature);
System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA256 SHA256 = new System.Security.Cryptography.HMACSHA256(Convert.FromBase64String(AzureStorageConstants.Key));
String AuthorizationHeader = "SharedKey " + AzureStorageConstants.Account + ":" + Convert.ToBase64String(SHA256.ComputeHash(SignatureBytes));
return AuthorizationHeader;
}
public string GetCanonicalizedResource(Uri address, string accountName)
{
StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("/");
builder.Append(accountName);
builder.Append(address.AbsolutePath);
str.Append(builder.ToString());
NameValueCollection values2 = new NameValueCollection();
NameValueCollection values = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(address.Query);
foreach (string str2 in values.Keys)
{
ArrayList list = new ArrayList(values.GetValues(str2));
list.Sort();
StringBuilder builder2 = new StringBuilder();
foreach (object obj2 in list)
{
if (builder2.Length > 0)
{
builder2.Append(",");
}
builder2.Append(obj2.ToString());
}
values2.Add((str2 == null) ? str2 : str2.ToLowerInvariant(), builder2.ToString());
}
ArrayList list2 = new ArrayList(values2.AllKeys);
list2.Sort();
foreach (string str3 in list2)
{
StringBuilder builder3 = new StringBuilder(string.Empty);
builder3.Append(str3);
builder3.Append(":");
builder3.Append(values2[str3]);
str.Append("\n");
str.Append(builder3.ToString());
}
return str.ToString();
}
To fix your Signature related problem, I took the code from Storage_REST_CS sample which has superb implementation of accessing Windows Azure (Blob, Table & Queue) Storage over REST interface.