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David Ries
David Ries

Reputation: 41

FB.ui Send Dialog 500 error... but only on link to my site?

I'm using FB.ui to show the Send dialog. It works perfectly... unless I specify the link to the new site I'm working on.

This works (FB dialog displays, recipient receives message):

FB.ui({       
    method: 'send',
    name: 'Check out my new site!',
    link: 'http://nytimes.com/',
});

But it breaks when I change the link value to 'http://plumspotter.com/'.

When I change 'http://nytimes.com/' to the site I'm working on 'http://plumspotter.com/', it appears to work, but the recipient does not receive the message.

Using Firebug > Net panel I see that when FB.ui posts to facebook.com/dialog/send it's returns a 500 (internal server error).

Any idea why Facebook wouldn't allow me to use FB.ui to send a link to http://plumspotter.com/?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4461

Answers (4)

Darius
Darius

Reputation: 12042

By visiting your site http://plumspotter.com I get a htaccess password prompt: Access to the Plumspotter Alpha is restricted. If you remove the barrier, it should work without trouble.

Upvotes: 2

OlivierG
OlivierG

Reputation: 21

After several hours of problems I realized that this type of sharing does not support link redirects type header (). The simple solution is a redirection in the metas: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL="> and above, request a debug the old url that you use https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug . And... It's work.

Upvotes: 0

Karan
Karan

Reputation: 15094

I recently faced the same problem. Facebook will analyse your page before sending a link, if it cant, it will throw a 500 error.

More info:

If your page does not return a 200 code, it will not analyse your page, and will throw up a 500 error.

Make sure the page you link does not redirect to any other pages, even if they are within your app. A redirect is 3xx code - which is not accepted by facebook.

Since your site has htaccess - facebook cant scroll through the page you linked - and hence will throw up an error.

Upvotes: 6

CgodLEY
CgodLEY

Reputation: 994

I received the same error (HTTP 500) and it turned out to be that I was linking to an IP address:

Bad: http://173.194.75.106

Good: http://google.com

Upvotes: 0

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