SSL & Facebook.
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| Hay all. As a test and for the purpose of sorting out how it works, I set about adding my little tictac game to facebook, for the most part this was really easy and within a few minutes I was playing my game in facebook. Which was cool, but something that came up during the process was that very soon Facebook will require all new apps to have a normal url and a secure SSL url, since this costs money to get a signed certificate , and possibly more money to buy hosting that supports it I was wondering what possible solutions there might be. Has anyone here paid for the SSL service and a Signed certificate and if so, what were your costs, who did you go with. |
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| I dont know anything about purchasing SSL certificates but I do know facebook have been displaying that message since the beginning of time and they have not changed anything yet. (Its also expired hasnt it? oct 2011) I have a SSL hoster but no certificate. Facebook uses my Standard URL for my apps. apps.facebook.com/pizzapestz/ my host is purplecloud.com |
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| I thought it was October this year. and its a clear signal of intent , I doubt they would put it there without the intent to enforce it at some point, and I would have to spend time working on makeing something facebook ready just to have them then screw me over by enforcing ssl. |
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| Warning Secure Canvas URL will be required on 1 October 2011. This is the blog entry http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/497/. also look at this http://www.social-server.com/ A quick google search claims godaddys cheapo ssl certificates are compatible. But seems a pointless purchase at the moment considering its well past the deadline |
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| Forgetting all that, I can actually access my application just fine using my Hosts own SSL certificate and a longer address https://apps.facebook.com/pizzapestz/ the iframe links to https://hera.krystal.co.uk/~nerionx/pizzapestz/ |
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| Still waiting for a reply from my host. :/ |
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| Will you be using FB connect to interact with FB? I'm looking for that for Monkey. My begin idea was to actually code some generic lib for http get/post sync/async, but as time is wasting away, I now thought the quickest way is to just add in the libs for the different languages and hook those up via native methods. I must say I like the former solution a lot more than the latter. |
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| I tried to do it with mnet adding flash support myself.. In the end I was not successful and resigned to using dialogs. Isnt FB.connect being phased out? You cant access graphs in javascript was my understanding |
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| Taiphoz, I have my own server, so hosting wasn't a cost, but I paid $69.99 for an ssl certificate from GoDaddy. I'm not sure I needed it, but I was curious about how to go about purchasing and installing one. Everything was pretty straightforward. http://apps.facebook.com/smartasteroids |
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