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Yet another Facebook application issue

It’s only been a few weeks since we last pestered you, but it turns out our changes to the Facebook app weren’t quite enough, and that for a certain set of users flight notifications were still not working properly.  This time, though, we’re pretty sure we’ve got it licked, so let’s try this one last time — or so I hope.  Please go to:

http://apps.facebook.com/openflights/

If it says “Automatic refreshing active” at the bottom, the app should be working fine and no action is needed.  However, if it says “Step 1“, then please follow the instructions: click the link, grant the “publish” and “remember me” permissions, and then “Activate/Update preferences”.  You should get a “Thank you!” box after this, and then the application should finally work.  And if it doesn’t…  let us know!

<geek> Turns out that publish_stream isn’t enough, offline_access is required as well before Facebook will deign to grant a session key usable for offline stream publishing, and we were recording the wrong, temporary ones. Fortunately, we can request both and use the users_hasAppPermission() call to verify that the permission has duly been granted before recording the session key, and everything should now be peachy keen. </geek>

Facepalmed by Facebook,
-jani

3 Comments on “Yet another Facebook application issue”

  1. #1 Pedro Assuncao
    on Mar 10th, 2010 at 1:46 am

    Hi, congrats on the cool site :)

    Couple of notes:
    - On the FAQ page, the signup link is broken (still pointing to /html/signup, when you know signup at /html/settings?new=yes);
    - In some pages the links on the top right corner don’t work on chrome (the cursor doesn’t even turn into a hand, seems a CSS issue).

    Hope it helps,
    Pedro

  2. #2 Pedro Assuncao
    on Mar 10th, 2010 at 1:47 am

    Oh, i just noticed i commented on the facebook post, but my remarks were about the site pages :)

  3. #3 openflights
    on Mar 10th, 2010 at 3:04 am

    Thanks, the FAQ link is fixed now. Chrome is not one of our officially supported browsers, but if you can suggest a CSS change that would fix the problem, let us know!

    -jani

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