Facebook Connect was down

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Post by arrel » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:23 AM UTC

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#2

Post by burnout1540 » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:30 AM UTC

Not only is it down, but it's redirecting everyone who visits a site with FB Connect on it to this error page. For example: http://www.economist.com

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#3

Post by citricsquid » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:32 AM UTC

If you're affected by this logging out of Facebook stops the redirect happening.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:33 AM UTC

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#5

Post by smartazzwhole » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:34 AM UTC

This is ruining my life.

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Post by porterhaney » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:34 AM UTC

I'm surprised the redirect loop can even happen. Seems malicious. Another example: http://www.usatoday.com

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Post by nthitz » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:35 AM UTC

burnout1540 wrote: post #2

Not only is it down, but it's redirecting everyone who visits a site with FB Connect on it to this error page. For example: http://www.economist.com

Oooh that's bad. I would be fuming mad if that was happening on my site.

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Post by zopticity » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:37 AM UTC

As pointed out in the previous post, you should not rely 100% on Facebook as your Auth gateway. You should have an alternative for your users to login in case of something like this happens.

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Post by wangarific » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:38 AM UTC

A clever way to take over the Internet.

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Post by allsystemsgo » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 12:38 AM UTC

Hmph. And I was just sitting down to do a iOS Facebook connect tutorial.