Facebook Connect response ignoring 'next' parameter

Question

I'm using the Facebook connect login API for desktop apps presented here:

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Authorization%5Fand%5FAuthentication%5Ffor%5FDesktop%5FApplications

I'm finding that the parameters I pass arent working correctly. Here's an example of the URL I use for the site:

http://www.facebook.com/login.php?api%5Fkey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&connect%5Fdisplay=popup&v=1.0&next=http://www.facebook.com/connect/login%5Fsuccess.html&cancel%5Furl=http://www.facebook.com&fbconnect=true&return%5Fsession=true&req%5Fperms=publish%5Fstream

If the user logs in correctly, they are redirected to http://www.facebook.com/ instead of the value in the next parameter. This is particularly frustrating since the url of the site they were redirected to is supposed to contain login information. Amazingly, the cancel_ url parameter works fine and sends the user to the correct target (I tried multiple cancel_url values inside of the facebook.com domain and they worked). Anybody dealt with this?

Answer 1

Is the API Key valid? Is your callback url set correctly in the application ? the next parameter is seeming to be ignored on non Internet Explorer Browsers.

Actually the next parameter was messing up the code in IE, so i removed the next parameter. What I did is storing the redirect back url in session and used a file to handle all facebook logins in all my domains.

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/08/facebook-auth-next-parameter-ie.html