EasySocial and Facebook Canvas - Not sure if it's an EasySocial gliltch
By Dave Parker on Tuesday, 01 April 2014
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Hi.
I have a Facebook app and use the Web Canvas feature.
If I'm not logged in, and go to my App page (https://apps.facebook.com/u-read-blogs/?fb_source=bookmark&ref=bookmarks&count=0&fb_bmpos=2_0) I get the ES login screen. I can log in (in my case using Facebook OAuth method), and browse the site, no problem.
However, if I move away from the canvas back to my Facebook profile, then try to go to the canvas again, I get a 404 error on the site.
Checking my logs, I see that FB is trying to navigate to http://u-read.net/?fb_source=bookmark&ref=bookmarks&count=0&fb_bmpos=2_0 when not logged in on the site, but when logged in, Facebook canvas is trying to go to http://u-read.net/?Itemid=710
Bit confused, and don't know if this is a ES problem.
Dave
Hello David,

I am not too sure if the Canvas view would work with EasySocial or Joomla because if I am not wrong, it uses a different session object altogether.
Mark
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Tuesday, 01 April 2014 23:16
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It kind of works as it stands, as in if not already logged in, it allows you to do so, browse the site etc. It's purely when you navigate away from the FB canvas and try to go back into it again on the FB canvas that it tries to load that odd url (ending in /?Itemid=710 in my case).
Dave
Dave Parker
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Wednesday, 02 April 2014 15:57
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Hello Dave,

We have never really tested this to be honest and I don't think this would work actually because if I recall correctly, FB Canvas uses an iframe and there could be some issues with the session.
Mark
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Thursday, 03 April 2014 00:01
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