C# Simple Twitter Update
- by mroberts
For what it's worth a simple twitter update.
1: using System;
2: using System.IO;
3: using System.Net;
4: using System.Text;
5:
6: namespace Server.Actions
7: {
8: public class TwitterUpdate
9: {
10: public string Body { get; set; }
11: public string Login { get; set; }
12: public string Password { get; set; }
13:
14: public override void Execute()
15: {
16: try
17: {
18: //encode user name and password
19: string creds = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(string.Format("{0}:{1}", this.Login, this.Password)));
20:
21: //encode tweet
22: byte[] tweet = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("status=" + this.Body);
23:
24: //setup request
25: HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml");
26: request.Method = "POST";
27: request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;
28: request.Headers.Add("Authorization", string.Format("Basic {0}", creds));
29: request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
30: request.ContentLength = tweet.Length;
31:
32: //write to stream
33: Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();
34: reqStream.Write(tweet, 0, tweet.Length);
35: reqStream.Close();
36:
37: //check response
38: HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
39:
40: //...
41: }
42: catch (Exception e)
43: {
44: //...
45: }
46: }
47: }
48: }
BTW, this is my first blog post. Nothing earth shattering, I admit, but I needed to figure out how to post formatted code. In the past I’ve used Alex Gorbatchev’s Syntax Highlighter with great success, but here at GWB I couldn’t get it to work.
Windows Live Writer though, being a stand alone writer, worked with no problems. For now, that’s what I’ll use.
