Facebook Connect Bug - Javascript Refresh

Facebook Connect has a recent bug that is causing the permissions pop-up window to not close and refresh the parent window as it is designed to do. Instead, after approval by the u

Solution 1:

It's a (unconfirmed) bug.

http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12260

Hopefully it gets more votes so it gets fixed - vote people!

In the meantime, i am (attempting) to employ the following 'creative workaround':

1. Add logic to my Default.aspx page to detect that URL they are redirecting to in the popup.
2. Redirect to my page, FacebookInboundAuthorization.aspx, preserving querystring.
3. On load of that page, register some JavaScript to close the popup and manually fire the "onlogin" event handler for my button.

EDIT - Another possible solution

So i do something like this for the "Disconnect from Facebook" button, which has a similar bug which has been in FBC from day 1. If the user is already logged in, and you click the "Disconnect from Facebook" button, the "onlogin" handler is not fired.

So what i ended up doing is replacing the Facebook Disconnect button with my own regular anchor tag, mimicing the Facebook CSS. This way i can have full control over the click event (fire the function i want).

So, this principle could (theoretically) be applied to this current bug.

That is, after you do FB.Init on client-side:

1. Check FB auth status using FB.Connect.ifUserConnected
2. If user is connected, hide the regular FB:Login button, and show your "fake" FB Login button. Copy across the "onlogin" function from your regular FB:Login button to your fake button as the onclick event.

Your Fake FB Login button would be a regular anchor tag, with the same CSS applied to the regular FB Login buton.

So essentially, if the user is already connected, we don't really need FB's intervention for authentication, we can just do whatever we want (request perms, redirect, etc).

That should work.

Unfortunately i have higher priority things i need to work on, but it sounds like this is top priority for you.

So give that a go, hope it helps.