Web Sign On OAuth Errors

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1. Thomas Purchas

   #1 13:43, Thu 24 Jan 2013

   Hey, I'm currently trying to make my web app authenticate using OAuth. I have had some limited sucess, but at the moment I keep running into a 401 error when trying to get an access token. After authenticating a token, and the user is redirected back to my app, I attempt to convert the request token to an access token at get the following: 'status': '401', 'date': 'Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:13:46 GMT', 'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8', 'www-authenticate': 'OAuth realm="https%3A%2F%2Fwebsignon.warwick.ac.uk%2F", oauth_problem="token_rejected"' I have only included the relevant information but could someone shed light on whattoken_rejected means. Your documentation says that I should get a plain 400 error if its a badly formatted request, and I get a different
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2. Mathew Mannion

   #2 13:57, Thu 24 Jan 2013

   Hi Thomas, token_rejected is sent back if (and only if) it can't find an entry for the token ID you've sent in the database; are you sure that the token you're sending matches the request token you got back initially? Mat
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3. Thomas Purchas

   #3 14:09, Thu 24 Jan 2013

   Thanks Matt. I have done some more diging. It turns out the library I'm using is trying to request an access token twice, and failing on the second attempt. Now I just need to figure out why it tries twice... Thomas
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