Facebook Signed Request for iOS (HMAC SHA256)

Question

I\'ve been trying to generate HMAC SHA256 for Facebook signed request on iOS for weeks now. I am desperate need of help.

Facebook signed requests have two parts which a

Answer 1

The problem was with the Base64 encoder. It needs to be encoded as Base64Url see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#URL_applications

Here's the modifed base64EncodedString category method:

//NSData+Base64.h
 - (NSString *)base64EncodedString
 {
    size_t outputLength;

    char *outputBuffer = NewBase64Encode([self bytes], [self length], true, &outputLength);
    NSString *result = [[[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:outputBuffer length:outputLength encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding] autorelease];
    free(outputBuffer);

     NSString *b64PayloadClean = [[result componentsSeparatedByCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet newlineCharacterSet]] componentsJoinedByString:@""];

     //do URL encoding by replacing "+" and "/" to "-" and "_" respectively
     b64PayloadClean = [b64PayloadClean stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"=" withString:@""];
     b64PayloadClean = [b64PayloadClean stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"+" withString:@"-"];
     b64PayloadClean = [b64PayloadClean stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/" withString:@"_"];

    return b64PayloadClean;
 }