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First time Boss placefinder user, need help with auth and api call?

Hi I was using the free placefinder before for store lookup by postal code and now that that is being deprecated and a paid version needs to be used I am looking to the Boss implementation. My issue is I created a project and got the appid, consumer key and secret and entered the payment info however when I now try to access the api I get an invalid signature error. Not sure if I am missing something or have an in correct call. The http get I am sending is as follows: (I am Xing out the important info partially for security purposes)

http://yboss.yahooapis.com/geo/placefinder?appid=evnXXXXX&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_nonce=ef3a091928d5491624c0ac54d697124422705091&oauth_timestamp=1360257380&oauth_consumer_key=dj0yJmk9VFRQMFA1UEE3YnVzJmQ9WVdrOVpYWnVOMjlsXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&oauth_signature=1b32e8f27ff52004844efXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1

Do I add the location and flag to this URL, or do I need to get a token? if yes steps please so I do not forget a piece of this procedure.

Can you advise as to what I am doing wrong and possibly provide in this posts steps I need to follow, I read the documentation but it seems that in some cases some info may or may not pertain to my use so I am a little stuck.

Thanks,

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  • Before with the free service we used

    http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?location="some location"&flags=J now with BOSS placefinder what needs to change?

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  • yes! Location and flag param will be part of your GET param.

    Read more on authorization model here http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/docs/oauth_model_geo.html

    You have to generate oauth_timestamp and oauth_nonce and oauth_signature on your side, see if clock on server is properly set.

    just append these values to your request param and things should work fine.

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