Using Direct OAuth with the Yahoo! Messenger IM SDK
The Yahoo! Messenger IM APIs support both HMAC-SHA1 and PLAINTEXT encryption methods. The following example shows an HTTP GET request that retrieves a contact list using the Direct OAuth credentials.
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Requests to Yahoo! APIs and Web services that require OAuth authorization must provide the OAuth credentials either via query
parameters or via an Authorization header. Credentials in the POST body are not supported.
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For PLAINTEXT, the OAuth signature should be the Shared Secret key that was generated by developer.yahoo.com with an ampersand character '&' appended onto the end, followed by the oauth_token_secret returned from the previous call. See here for more information.