Facebook Connect not setting cookies

Question

I'm trying to implement Facebook Connect on a website with .NET MVC using C#.

I've followed the instructions here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Trying_Out_Facebook_Connect step by step. I can make the login work as in that when I log in through the site I'm also logged into Facebook.

In order to work with this in the server I think I need to access the cookies Facebook is supposed to leave like:

APIKEY_user
APIKEY_session_key
...

as mentioned here http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Verifying_The_Signature.

The thing is I'm not getting any of these cookies. I've googled and it seems like I'm the only person with this problem. Any ideas as to what I could be doing wrong ? Has this happened to anyone else ?

Answer 1

The issue was that I was developing locally using localhost.

I resolved the problem by changing the settings for the application to point to a certain web address instead of localhost and changing my hosts file lo point that same web address to 127.0.0.1

Answer 2

from the UI/client-side perspective, always insure you have the correct path indicated for the xd_receiver file in your FB.init() method.

Answer 3

Firecookie is very useful for seeing what Cookies are/aren't being set.