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"I'd also like to know this; or preferably get some sort of roadmap for when API features are coming."

"Hey Davin Any news about extending the API to support events ?   I would LOVE to get some more functions to extend my use of NING.   I'm building a newsletter containing my members new and up comming events, but the rss feed only give…"

"You are welcome, Jan!"

"Hey Franco my new best friend ;-) I got the authentication part to work with cUrl, but were unable to use it to the second call with data in the header. So I have used a normal .NET WebClient request with the right header, and that works just…"

"That's good news Jan! At least, now you know that your credentials are OK. From here on cannot be of much help, though, as I do not know C# and have limited experience with cURL. The only thing that attracts my attention in your code is the…"

"Hey Franco Thank you SO much for your help !! I got your curltest, and that works just fine with my credentials. So far so good !!!! So now it's time to investigate why C# cUrl library don't work. Is the header just a text block with…"

"Jan, This is the meaning of the two options you mentioned (from PHP manual):   CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER: An array of HTTP header fields to set, in the format array('Content-type: text/plain', 'Content-length:…"

"Hey Franco I'm so glad to hear from you ! I have specified it a bit more, and changed it so it looks like your code   My post to https://external.ningapis.com/xn/rest/nfs-online/1.0/User/alpha?xn_pretty=true   My C#…"

"Hi Jan, Below is a cURL command (for Windows command prompt) that eventually worked for me (key/token/secret numbers are just random examples):   curl…"

"Hey Franco, I also have some problems with Authorization. Maybe you could help me ? I have managed to get oauth token and everything, but when I try get the user list…"

"good to know!"

"Yes, I confirm that the issue is with Poster: it seems that it messes things up a bit with the Authorization header. I tried the same case with cURL and it worked perfectly. Sorry for annoying you with this."

"In fact, I'm using the Poster add-on for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/poster/). May be the problem is with this tool..."

"Ah. I use php so I can't help with the asp version. Post the fix here when you get it for others though!"

"Thanks Chris. However, the discussion you mention deals with obtaining access credentials through the https://external.ningapis.com/xn/rest/apiexample/1.0/Token?xn_pretty=true. I manage to do that and I obtained the relevant JSON answer. What…"

"Here are some similar problems with solutions: https://build.ning.com/forum/topics/access-token  "