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Get a user GUID

It feels like I've tried everything and have read all the documentation including

http://developer.yahoo.com/social/rest_api...d-resource.html

and i recieve this

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <yahoo:error xmlns:yahoo='http://yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng' xml:lang='en-US'> <yahoo:description>Please provide valid credentials. OAuth oauth_problem="unable_to_determine_oauth_type", realm="yahooapis.com"</yahoo:description> </yahoo:error> <!--
ws109.socdir.mud.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Tue Jul 28 15:32:17 PDT 2009 -->

however i am not using oauth...i spent 2 weeks trying to get that to work and couldn't figure out how to get a valid signature for the auth token.

I would greatly appreciate any help...please try to address this specific issue and please dont just paste a link to documentation

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  • If you're trying to access private information about a user you will need to make an OAuth signed request to do so. Our SDKs allow you to do this easily, or you can build your own OAuth request to do so. If you could provide a code snippet of what you are doing I can see what we can do to help you along.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network
    Twitter: jcleblanc

    QUOTE (connexiondeveloper @ Jul 28 2009, 02:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    It feels like I've tried everything and have read all the documentation including

    http://developer.yahoo.com/social/rest_api...d-resource.html

    and i recieve this

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <yahoo:error xmlns:yahoo='http://yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng' xml:lang='en-US'> <yahoo:description>Please provide valid credentials. OAuth oauth_problem="unable_to_determine_oauth_type", realm="yahooapis.com"</yahoo:description> </yahoo:error> <!--
    ws109.socdir.mud.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Tue Jul 28 15:32:17 PDT 2009 -->

    however i am not using oauth...i spent 2 weeks trying to get that to work and couldn't figure out how to get a valid signature for the auth token.

    I would greatly appreciate any help...please try to address this specific issue and please dont just paste a link to documentation
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  • Hi jonathan,
    I'm trying to reteive the yahoo contacts.i stopped here .Could you plz help me to come out of this.

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
    <yahoo:error xmlns:yahoo='http://yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng'
    xml:lang='en-US'>
    <yahoo:description>Please provide valid credentials. OAuth oauth_problem="unable_to_determine_oauth_type", realm="yahooapis.com"</yahoo:description>
    </yahoo:error>
    <
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