BugsUseless error messages with server-side authentication
- Status: Fixed
- Priority: None
- Updated: March 26, 2012 at 8:05pm
Latest response from Facebook
Eric Osgood
Sorry for the erroneous status update, it was intended for bugs in a stale state. Please disregard the previous message.
Noorin Ladhani
Fixed the documentation. When the error is thrown, it displays the details API Error Description: The specified URL is not owned by the application
Error Message: Missing redirect_uri parameter. So, not able to repro that part.
Error Message: Missing redirect_uri parameter. So, not able to repro that part.
Status changed to Fixed
When I connected my site and facebook I spent several hours in debugging issue with invalid parameter name in query(buggy example at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/server-side/):
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?
client_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&redirect_url=YOUR_REDIRECT_URI
&scope=COMMA_SEPARATED_LIST_OF_PERMISSION_NAMES
&state=SOME_ARBITRARY_BUT_UNIQUE_STRING
Right parameter name is `redirect_uri`, not `redirect_url`.
Eror message was `An error occurred. Please try again later.` and it doesn't explain the reason why this error happened. I suppose, in this case(and maybe some other cases with enabled sandbox or invalid app domain) error page should contain error message like 'Request dosn't have required arg redirect_uri'.
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?
client_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&redirect_url=YOUR_REDIRECT_URI
&scope=COMMA_SEPARATED_LIST_OF_PERMISSION_NAMES
&state=SOME_ARBITRARY_BUT_UNIQUE_STRING
Right parameter name is `redirect_uri`, not `redirect_url`.
Eror message was `An error occurred. Please try again later.` and it doesn't explain the reason why this error happened. I suppose, in this case(and maybe some other cases with enabled sandbox or invalid app domain) error page should contain error message like 'Request dosn't have required arg redirect_uri'.
| Steps to Reproduce: | 1. Copy&Paster example from documentation to your html page: https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth? client_id=YOUR_APP_ID &redirect_url=YOUR_REDIRECT_URI 2. Go to authentication link in your browser |
|---|---|
| Expected Behavior: | Meaningful error message |
| Actual Behavior: | Extremely useless error message `An error occurred. Please try again later.` |
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