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Creating a facebook application

Hi I created a desktop application. I was wondering what I should put for my Canvas Callback URL. I tried to define it as local (http://localhost:8084) but it doesnt accept it.

I need it to get the session using http://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&v=1.0

Thanks!

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Your canvas callback URL has to be an address that Facebook can actually fetch data from. That is not localhost, since as the name implies that is local to you.

Read the following: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Canvas_Callback_URL#How_It_Works

Your canvas page URL is http://apps.facebook.com/foobar/
Your canvas callback URL is http://www.foobar.com/yourapp/
[...etc]

Putting localhost as the canvas callback url is like buying something online and filling the shipping address as "my house".

For some basic information on how a Facebook application works, this is a good reading material:

http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Anatomy_of_a_Facebook_App

polygenelubricants 2010-02-27 21:24:58

hmm but wouldnt that require me to own the domain foobar.com?

Lily 2010-02-27 21:26:03

Do you have the application hosted on a server somewhere?

polygenelubricants 2010-02-27 21:28:06

no, not as of yet

Lily 2010-02-27 21:29:11

Well, you want to take care of that part first. Find a server, host your application there. Give Facebook your app's url, that will be the canvas callback url.

polygenelubricants 2010-02-27 21:33:05

so i wouldnt be able to create a desktop application, it would need to be a web based app?

Lily 2010-02-27 21:33:54

The application has to be web-enabled for it to be a Facebook app, yes.

polygenelubricants 2010-02-27 21:35:44

And by the way, `foobar.com` is just used as an example here. You substitute it with whatever domain name your Facebook application is hosted at.

polygenelubricants 2010-02-27 21:43:43

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