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Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by callahad »

brennenHN wrote: post #22

Quick, integrate with clef.io instead!

Or give up closed, centralized systems altogether and take a look at Mozilla's Persona project -- the open web deserves open, federated authentication systems.

(N.B.: I work on Persona, and it does have a centralized fallback for bootstrapping browsers and identities. The difference is that the centralization is temporary, optional, and automatically goes away over time.)

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by tokenadult »

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

The site

http://www.economist.com/

works fine for me, perhaps because I have never used Facebook to log into it.

AFTER EDIT: Replying to the kind reply to this comment, I am ALWAYS logged in to Facebook (with AdBlock Plus and Social Fixer and Ghostery activated, using Chrome), and I was surfing all over the Web completely normally while sites were reported to be redirecting. So maybe something different about my set-up protected me from the problems many other users observed today.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by rosser »

tokenadult wrote: post #32
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

The site http://www.economist.com/ works fine for me, perhaps because I have never used Facebook to log into it. AFTER EDIT: Replying to the kind reply to this comment, I am ALWAYS logged in to Facebook (with AdBlock Plus and Social Fixer and Ghostery activated, using Chrome), and I was surfing all over the Web completely normally while sites were reported to be redirecting. So maybe something different about my set-…

It's not whether you've ever used Facebook to log into The Economist's site, but whether you were logged into Facebook at all. If you were, you were redirected.

EDIT: By the timestamp on your comment, the issue appears to have been fixed, anyway.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by josh2600 »

Again, building large things on big proprietary services is a bad idea unless you understand what you're getting into.

I can almost guarantee that the folks that implemented FB connect didn't understand that the failure mode could forward all traffic to FB. I have no idea how that could become a rational design decision.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

#36

Post by ceejayoz »

mxxx wrote: post #29

A perfect case study in why the current practice of "just add a script tag with 'facebook.com/whatever.js' into your page and all your LIKE buttons will work magically!" is an absolutely terrible idea.

Yep. We prefer the solution over their JavaScript-created versions for this reason.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by gfodor »

mxxx wrote: post #29

A perfect case study in why the current practice of "just add a script tag with 'facebook.com/whatever.js' into your page and all your LIKE buttons will work magically!" is an absolutely terrible idea.

It's only a terrible idea if you don't have a kill switch. It's also only a terrible idea if the benefits do not outweigh the costs of something like this happening (and you being unable to respond to it.)

Adding the JS file is simple and up until now has always worked. If it ends up driving tons of traffic back to your site it seems worth it.

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