Signature
The Signature is the RFC 2104 HMAC-SHA1, of selected elements from the request, and so the Signature part of the Authorization
header will vary from request to request.
Component | Description |
HTTP method |
|
MD5 hash sum of the string with JSON-serialized parameters | If there are no parameters in the request body (e.g. |
Content-Type |
|
Date | HTTP-date format e.g. |
Request URI | Everything that is after the base URL e.g. |
Here is a piece of pseudo-code that demonstrates the Authorization
header construction. \n
means the Unicode code point U+000A
, commonly called a newline:
So this should look like the Authorization header below:
Make sure that the date used for signature is the same you put in the Date header
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