I'm guessing that VB is encrypting the ~ incorrectly. Can you use fiddler to watch the traffic and see what the actual request/response look like? See Debugging API Calls for more information on debugging what's going on.

in this case, it looks like your VB library isn't supporting https for the request. You can try making the request over http instead so we can get back to the original error :-)

Alas, I'm not a Windows developer, so we need to figure this out from your side (I have done some C# programming but it's a lot of overhead to get the system set up).

You're still getting the SSL error when you use http? Or are you back to the ~ error? If the latter, please post all request headers, the URL being called (per Fiddler), the response and response body.

You don't want to be sending the verifier to this request. You should have gotten a permanent access token from the token process, after which time the verifier isn't needed (but the permanent oauth token and secret are needed - not the ones from the original request token request, the ones you got from the access token request). It sounds like you may not have gone all the way through to getting the access token and the server doesn't know what user to perform the request for. Is that possible?

Can you try the request using the OAuth test console and compare the requests? Or you can make the same query in the REST Console. Watch the traffic using fiddler and see what's different between your request and a successful request.

You went through the oauth authentication process (by clicking the lock to log in)?

Just the application name. I can get the keys from that.

Paul,

The REST Console does not use your keys.

Please do the following steps:
1) Go to the REST Console
2) Click the lock and select "OAuth" (not 2-legged OAuth)
3) Authenticate as the user
4) Select 1. Profile
5) Click on people/~
6) Click "GET"

Let me know if this sequence doesn't work for you.

From there, you can look at the request headers and information, and try to figure out what's different between your request and that request.

I have gotten a permanent access token from the token process, but after 30 minutes it will give the error like this.please give me help it's urgent.
Array ( [linkedin] => 401 1329821129627 09KGPZCRR5 0 [unauthorized]. The token used in the OAuth request is not valid. ebc9900d-9e78-426b-9353-cd96696e2652 [info] => Array ( [url] => https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/shares [content_type] => text/xml;charset=UTF-8 [http_code] => 401 [header_size] => 208 [request_size] => 787 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 0.276232 [namelookup_time] => 0.016223 [connect_time] => 0.072096 [pretransfer_time] => 0.201044 [size_upload] => 326 [size_download] => 326 [speed_download] => 1180 [speed_upload] => 1180 [download_content_length] => 326 [upload_content_length] => 326 [starttransfer_time] => 0.276174 [redirect_time] => 0 [certinfo] => Array ( ) [redirect_url] => ) [oauth] => Array ( [header] => Authorization: OAuth realm="http%3A%2F%2Fapi.linkedin.com",oauth_version="1.0",oauth_nonce="8335e2ea5db79207f5644b05ef5ef722",oauth_timestamp="1329821129",oauth_consumer_key="MYKEY",oauth_token="ebc9900d-9e78-426b-9353-cd96696e2652",oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",oauth_signature="1DrkENf6tMqC%2Foet0VduclZYayM%3D" [string] => POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.linkedin.com%2Fv1%2Fpeople%2F~%2Fshares&oauth_consumer_key%3Duuq488qxkz0m%26oauth_nonce%3D8335e2ea5db79207f5644b05ef5ef722%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1329821129%26oauth_token%3Debc9900d-9e78-426b-9353-cd96696e2652%26oauth_version%3D1.0 ) [success] => [error] => HTTP response from LinkedIn end-point was not code 201 )

Hi Salim,

Are you using the Javascript or the REST APIs?

-Jeremy

i am using REST APIs.

Are you using the PHP library? If so, please include the code you're using. The information you provided isn't enough to determine what the issue is. Are you able to make GET calls successfully? Does everything fail, or just write operations? You need to be very specific about what you're doing, what works, and what doesn't work.

Please read Debugging API Calls for some strategies you can try.

This code for when user login in linkedin in.

require_once('linkedin_3.2.0.class.php');
require_once('config.php');

// start the session
if(!session_start()) {
throw new LinkedInException('This script requires session support, which appears to be disabled according to session_start().');
}

// display constants
$API_CONFIG = array('appKey' => KEY,'appSecret' => SECRET_KEY,'callbackUrl' => NULL );
// print_r($API_CONFIG);
define('CONNECTION_COUNT', 20);
define('PORT_HTTP', '80');
define('PORT_HTTP_SSL', '443');
define('UPDATE_COUNT', 10);

// set index
$_REQUEST[LINKEDIN::_GET_TYPE] = (isset($_REQUEST[LINKEDIN::_GET_TYPE])) ? $_REQUEST[LINKEDIN::_GET_TYPE] : '';
switch($_REQUEST[LINKEDIN::_GET_TYPE])
{
default:

// * Handle user initiated LinkedIn connection, create the LinkedIn object.
//

// check for the correct http protocol (i.e. is this script being served via http or https)
if($_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on')
{
$protocol = 'https';
}
else
{
$protocol = 'http';
}

// set the callback url
$API_CONFIG['callbackUrl'] = $protocol . '://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ((($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != PORT_HTTP) || ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != PORT_HTTP_SSL)) ? ':' . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] : '') . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?' . LINKEDIN::_GET_TYPE . '=initiate&' . LINKEDIN::_GET_RESPONSE . '=1';
$OBJ_linkedin = new LinkedIn($API_CONFIG);

// check for response from LinkedIn
$_GET[LINKEDIN::_GET_RESPONSE] = (isset($_GET[LINKEDIN::_GET_RESPONSE])) ? $_GET[LINKEDIN::_GET_RESPONSE] : '';
if(!$_GET[LINKEDIN::_GET_RESPONSE])
{
// LinkedIn hasn't sent us a response, the user is initiating the connection

// send a request for a LinkedIn access token
$response = $OBJ_linkedin->retrieveTokenRequest();
if($response['success'] === TRUE)
{
// store the request token
$_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['request'] = $response['linkedin'];
$_SESSION['companyid']=$_REQUEST['cid'];
$_SESSION['companysymbol']=$_REQUEST['s'];
$_SESSION['pagepath']=$_REQUEST['page'];

header('Location: '.LINKEDIN::_URL_AUTH.$response['linkedin']['oauth_token']);

}
else
{
// bad token request
echo "Request token retrieval failed:<br /><br />RESPONSE:<br /><br /><pre>" . print_r($response, TRUE) . "</pre><br /><br />LINKEDIN OBJ:<br /><br /><pre>" . print_r($OBJ_linkedin, TRUE) . "</pre>";
}
}
else
{

$response = $OBJ_linkedin->retrieveTokenAccess($_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['request']['oauth_token'], $_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['request']['oauth_token_secret'], $_GET['oauth_verifier']);

if($response['success'] === TRUE)
{
//print_r($response);
// the request went through without an error, gather user's 'access' tokens
$_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['access'] = $response['linkedin'];

// set the user as authorized for future quick reference
$_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['authorized'] = TRUE;

$access_token_key = $_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['access']['oauth_token'];
$access_token_secret_key = $_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['access']['oauth_token_secret'];

$qry_access_keys="select Lnk_Token_Key from eqadmin_equities_cms.company where eqadmin_equities_cms.company.Lnk_Token_Key=".$token->oauth_token."";

$result=select($qry_access_keys);
if(count($result) == 0 )
{
//echo "if condition"." ".$_SESSION['companyid'];
if(isset($_SESSION['companyid']) && $_SESSION['companyid'] != '')
{
$qry_insert="update eqadmin_equities_cms.company set eqadmin_equities_cms.company.Lnk_Token_Key='".$access_token_key."',eqadmin_equities_cms.company.Lnk_Token_Secret='".$access_token_secret_key."' where eqadmin_equities_cms.company.CompanyId=".$_SESSION['companyid']."";
}
else if(isset($_SESSION['companysymbol']) && $_SESSION['companysymbol'])
{
$qry_insert="update eqadmin_equities_cms.company set eqadmin_equities_cms.company.Lnk_Token_Key='".$access_token_key."',eqadmin_equities_cms.company.Lnk_Token_Secret='".$access_token_secret_key."' where eqadmin_equities_cms.company.Symbol='".$_SESSION['companysymbol']."'";
}
$result=other($qry_insert);

$response = $OBJ_linkedin->revoke();
if($response['success'] === TRUE)
{
//echo "response";
// revocation successful, clear session
session_unset($_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['request']['oauth_token'],$_SESSION['oauth']['linkedin']['request']['oauth_token_secret'],$_GET['oauth_verifier']);

}
}
echo "<script>javascript:close();</script>";

}
else
{
// bad token access
echo "Access token retrieval failed:<br /><br />RESPONSE:<br /><br /><pre>" . print_r($response, TRUE) . "</pre><br /><br />LINKEDIN OBJ:<br /><br /><pre>" . print_r($OBJ_linkedin, TRUE) . "</pre>";
}
}
}

=================================END THE LOGIN PROCESS===================================

This code for post message.

require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/IssuerProfile/TheoraTech.UI/TheoraTech.Client.UI/Tools/LinkedIn/linkedin_3.2.0.class.php');
require($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/IssuerProfile/TheoraTech.UI/TheoraTech.Client.UI/Tools/LinkedIn/config.php');
$token=array();
$API_CONFIG = array('appKey' => KEY,'appSecret' => SECRET_KEY,'callbackUrl' => CALLBACK_URL);
define('CONNECTION_COUNT', 20);
define('PORT_HTTP', '80');
define('PORT_HTTP_SSL', '443');
define('UPDATE_COUNT', 10);
// check the session

$OBJ_linkedin = new LinkedIn($API_CONFIG);

$token['oauth_token']=$lnkkey;
$token['oauth_token_secret']=$lnksecret;

$OBJ_linkedin->setTokenAccess($token);

// prepare content for sharing
$description=$Msg;
$msg=substr(trim($description),0,250);
$content = array();
if(!empty($description))
{
$content['comment'] = $description;
}
$response = $OBJ_linkedin->share('new', $content, 'TRUE');

================================== END FOR POST MESSAGE ======================================

i am using the PHP library. When user are login in linkedin with api i can store token_key and token_secret in database. after user is post the message from my application to linkedin. after 15-20 minutes it's working fine but after it give me error like this.

Array ( [linkedin] => 401 1329821129627 09KGPZCRR5 0 [unauthorized]. The token used in the OAuth request is not valid. ebc9900d-9e78-426b-9353-cd96696e2652 [info] => Array ( [url] => https://api.linkedin.com/v1/people/~/shares [content_type] => text/xml;charset=UTF-8 [http_code] => 401 [header_size] => 208 [request_size] => 787 [filetime] => -1 [ssl_verify_result] => 0 [redirect_count] => 0 [total_time] => 0.276232 [namelookup_time] => 0.016223 [connect_time] => 0.072096 [pretransfer_time] => 0.201044 [size_upload] => 326 [size_download] => 326 [speed_download] => 1180 [speed_upload] => 1180 [download_content_length] => 326 [upload_content_length] => 326 [starttransfer_time] => 0.276174 [redirect_time] => 0 [certinfo] => Array ( ) [redirect_url] => ) [oauth] => Array ( [header] => Authorization: OAuth realm="http%3A%2F%2Fapi.linkedin.com",oauth_version="1.0",oauth_nonce="8335e2ea5db79207f5644b05ef5ef722",oauth_timestamp="1329821129",oauth_consumer_key="MYKEY",oauth_token="ebc9900d-9e78-426b-9353-cd96696e2652",oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",oauth_signature="1DrkENf6tMqC%2Foet0VduclZYayM%3D" [string] => POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.linkedin.com%2Fv1%2Fpeople%2F~%2Fshares&oauth_consumer_key%3Duuq488qxkz0m%26oauth_nonce%3D8335e2ea5db79207f5644b05ef5ef722%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1329821129%26oauth_token%3Debc9900d-9e78-426b-9353-cd96696e2652%26oauth_version%3D1.0 ) [success] => [error] => HTTP response from LinkedIn end-point was not code 201 )

Hi Salim,

I would recommend using the PHP code samples from our quick start guide available here:

https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/quick-start-guide

They've been vetted by us and are known to work. While that library is one of the better ones out there, anything from a 3rd party we can't fully support and insure the issue isn't in the library and not with your code.

-Jeremy