Generate Shared Secret ?

[Guest]

I am creating service in C# wich creates new Distributor , i could not generate Distributor Shared Secret for distributor being created. Can anyone tell what is the formula for Generating Shared Scret ?

Thanks

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

A shared secret is 20 bytes of binary data.  I would suggest using random data...  (and it is base64 encoded in the XML)

[Guest]

Thanks Jim,

Here is my c# code for creating distributor:

Xml:

<request action="create" auth="builtin" xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/adept">
  <nonce>rNfAkgAAAA4=</nonce>
  <expiration>2011-06-20T12:07:58-00:00</expiration>
  <distributorData>
    <name>Shafqat</name>
    <distributorURL>http://www.shafqat.com</distributorURL>
    <notifyURL>http://www.shafqat.com/notify</notifyURL>
    <description>description shfqat</description>
    <maxLoanCount>9</maxLoanCount>
    <linkExpiration>19</linkExpiration>
    <sharedSecret>Q1nKX1RjimoVy5jzayWcYXe4xuU=</sharedSecret>
  </distributorData>
  <hmac>8SnrEtwNnDoXF4r4e0g8y27fveo=</hmac>
</request>

C#:

            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(new Uri("http://192.168.0.61:8080/admin/ManageDistributor"));
            request.Method = "POST";
            request.ContentType = "text/xml";

            StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream());
            writer.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml));
            writer.Close();

            HttpWebResponse webReaponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(webReaponse.GetResponseStream());
            Response.Write(reader.ReadToEnd());
            reader.Close();

i could not get anything in response and niether distributor is created ? can you guess whats wrong with code?

Thanks, Shafqat.

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

With no response at all I would suspect that your handling of the HTTPWebRequest class is off.  What happens when you use curl to do a post?

[Guest]

Thanks Jim,

I am not using CURL. This is simple asp.net/C# (.net framwork 4.0) code. When i execute that i gives error about content type. Invalid content type.

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

Oh so you are getting a response.  I had noticed that you are setting the Content-Type to 'text/xml' instead of the correct value "application/vnd.adobe.adept+xml" - you will want to fix that.

[Guest]

Jim i am very thankful to you for your quick response to my questions. My problem have been soleve .  it was a problem with generating hmac. i have got the solution. If anybody interested in C# version of UploadTool i will send the source code to him........

Thanks.