facebook-connect

facebook connect for mobile ?auth_token

hey i am building mobile website and i want to integrate facebook connect. in my regulat site i am using facebook connect that uses the cookie for getting the session key, on mobile this cookies method for getting the session is not recommended, i think. what ivgot so far is that i call to login rest server and then it return to me...

Loading lockup on internet explorer

Hi, I am programming an application using AJAX and facebook connect. The location of the application is http://dev.cafexi.com/fbconnect I'm having what I think is a simple issue 1) when I load the site in any browser except for IE it loads instantaneously - so no issues there 2) When I load in ie 7 or ie 8 it load incredibly slow. ...

Facebook-connect or OpenID? From a developer's perspective.

I have recently been contracted to work on an application that requires Facebook-Connect as one of its authentication mechanisms. Working on my Facebook-Connect solution, I'm realizing that it's implementing a Single-Sign On authentication scheme, where if you log in to one website, you're logged on to all of them. Personally, I'm not ...

3rd party website authentication libraries (like openid)

I'm building a website that will require user registration and logon. I would like to use the facebook connect to let people create a basic account and to log on without having to create a local account themselves - and let them fill in more profile details when they want to. What other 3rd party authorizations systems are there? Clear...

Facebook API and Facebook Connect using Java?

New to Facebook API and Facebook Connect. Found the Facebook Java API open source library on Google Code... I am really excited that there's an API pre-written in Java for it! Am interested in writing a server side Java layer which uses REST to be able to access a user’s Facebook Friends List, their wall, send them messages in-network...

Making Facebook Connect work with ASP.Net MVC

Hello, I am trying to integrate my ASP.Net MVC site with Facebook Connect. For some odd reason after the login popup loads and connets, HttpContxt.Current.Requet.Cookies[Session_Key_Cookie_Name] still returns NULL! What could be the possible reason? Thanks P.S I also noticed that although I've set localhost/xd_receiver in the Site....

Hand over FBConnect Session from iPhone >> Backend Server?

Good afternoon, I have a quick 'top level' question regarding the usage of Facebook Connect in an iPhone app which is in fact powered by my own backend. Is it possible that the user does authenticate him/herself with fbconnect on the iphone and the app hands over the session identifier to my server in order to perform whatever I need to...

Adding Facebook Connect to my iPhone Project

Hi all, I'm having trouble adding Facebook Connect to my iPhone Project. Here's the directory structure: -> MyProject ----> MyProject.xcodeproj ----> fbconnect-iphone ----> build/ ----> <other files and folders> As directed, I opened fbconnect-iphone/src/FBConnect.xcodeproj project file. I dragged the FBConnect group into my appli...

How to log out users using Facebook Connect in PHP and Zend?

I am trying to build a Connect app using PHP and Zend Framework. I also have a Zend_Auth based user authentication system. Now, I am able to log in using Facebook but log out is not working. I need to clear the Zend_Auth identity as well as remove all Facebook login info as well. What would be the best way to do this? I tried facebook_...

Problem with redirect after FB.Connect.showPermissionDialog

I'm building a facebook connect app to publish content to user's streams. In order to do that, I need to get extended publish_stream permission from the users. I'm using the function code to do so. Check connection status <input type="button" onclick="statusSubmit('Permission to publish : ');" value="Check connection status" /> <scrip...

get facebook user session after it over

hey i am using facebook connect and authenticate the user with it. for each user there is session key that expire after X minutes. how can i get the user session after the session is over ? i try FB.Connect.requireSession(); but i dont want to use this function because it pops up the facebook connect username and password. i wan...

iPhone Development - Bypass Authentication Screen of Facebook Connect

Hi, You can integrate Facebook Connect in your iPhone application to interact with Facebook and perform operations like updating status, posting link etc. To post status update to Facebook, you require extended permissions. To get extended permissions Facebook Connect shows a dialog for authentication (with username and password field)...

Unique Query String for Invited Friends?

I have developed a Facebook Connect application for sending invitations and integrated it with my website. What I want is to send a URL with a query string that contains uid of selected user (from listed friend list) as invitation content. For example: Suppose, I have selected 4 users from friend list whose uids are (102,105,107,109) an...

Facebook notifications fb:name as a title attribute of another tag

Hi all, I'm just wondering if it's possible to get the info from an 'fb:name' tag into the title of an 'a' tag in a Facebook notification. Like so: <a href="#" title="<fb:name uid='12345' linked='false' />, <fb:name uid='12346' linked='false' />">2 friends</a> just joined this application. When it's one friend only there's no proble...

Is is possible to requireSession and request permission publish_stream in f8 connect at once?

I'm integrating my site with Facebook Connect. I wonder if it's possible to request permission publish_stream at the same time that user is logging first time to the site using Facebook Connect. ...

django-facebookconnect login not working in Firefox

I've set up django-facebookconnect on my Django-based site, and it works great — login, posting to the user's News Feed, etc. — except for the fact that login fails in Firefox. When you click the "Connect with Facebook" button, it pops up the window for the user to type in their Facebook login info like normal, but the original page, in...

Facebook API: Set User Status with "@mentions" integration

StackOverflow'ers, I realize the new "@mentions" is a very new feature to facebook, but can any of you think of how to access this feature using the Facebook API? I would assume there would need to be a separate call to get a list of available users/applications/ect... I am just brainstorming here, I realize this may not be possib...

Facebook Connect Email hash function for vb.net

Does anyone have a working class or function to create the hashed email that is sent to facebook to register email addresses with connect.registerUsers? ...

Account Strategies on New Social Enabled Sites

So I'm in the midst of creating a Facebook Connect enabled site. The site in question will leverage your social graph - as defined by your facebook account - to do social things (what is really not important here). Here's the big question I have: Are people still rolling their own authentication heuristic when using something like Face...

Facebook Offline Access Key and login

Hey guys, I've been working on this for a while now and I can't seem to get it to work. It seems to be a frequently asked, but a rarely well-answered question. I want my website's users to link their facebook account with my website. So they can see their stream e.t.c on my site. At the moment, each time they log into my site they ha...