There are many other question related to this, but they didn't help me fix my problem.
I'm using the Facebook server-side login for a website, which I want to test locally. The path that initiates the login action is [http://localhost:8080/fblogin] (this redirects to the Facebook login dialogue, and goes from there).
I can successfully get the code, but when I try to exchange that for an access token, I get the following error:
{"error":{"message":"Missing redirect_uri parameter.","type":"OAuthException","code":191}}
I am providing the redirect_uri, url encoded and it is the same as the one I use to get the first code. Here is the url I'm using to request the access token (with the all-caps query string parameters replaced with their actual values, of course):
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8080%2Ffblogin&client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET&code=CODE_FROM_FB
I suspect this might have to do with how my app is set up on Facebook. Here are the values I have set:
Display Name: (an actual display name here)
App Domains: localhost
Contact email: (an actual email here)
Site URL: [http://localhost:8080/fblogin]
What do I need to tweak in the settings to get this to work? Or does this look correct?
By the way, if it makes any difference, I am using the Play! framework, version 2.0.1
After digging around a little more, I found that it was necessary for me to use POST when sending the request from my server to get the access token.
Interesting that using POST worked for you as this didn't for me.
In any case, did you add the query parameters using setQueryParameter()? (see How to make multiple http requests in play 2?)
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I have created a class that generates a URL that authorized my users with Facebook. Here it is:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?response_type=code&client_id=...&scope=email%2Cuser_about_me%2Cuser_friends%2Cuser_hometown%2Cuser_location%2Cuser_work_history%2Cuser_education_history%2Cpublish_actions&state=...&redirect_uri=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a53016%2fsocial%2fcallback%3fvariables%3dY2FsbGJhY2tfdXJsOi9MYW5kaW5nO2ZhbGxiYWNrX3VybDovQ29uc3VsdGFudC9TaWduVXA7bWV0aG9kOjE7cHJvdmlkZXI6MQ%3d%3d
This URL works just fine and returns back to my callback function. I'm able to convert the base64 string to my variables that I pass along with my URL. The trouble that I am facing is that Facebook doesn't recognize the URL to give me the access_token. This the return URL that I send to Facebook for the access_token.
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=...&client_secret=...&code=...&redirect_uri=http%3a%2f%2flocalhost%3a53016%2fsocial%2fcallback%3fvariables%3dY2FsbGJhY2tfdXJsOi9MYW5kaW5nO2ZhbGxiYWNrX3VybDovQ29uc3VsdGFudC9TaWduVXA7bWV0aG9kOjE7cHJvdmlkZXI6MQ%3d%3d
(I have cleared out the client_id and client_secret for obvious reasons.)
Can anyone notice what I am doing wrong here?
Perry thank you for your help. I was able to figure out what the problem was on my project. When I was encoding my parameters to Base64 I wasn't using the proper methods to convert it to String. This answer on stackoverflow helped me figure out what I was doing wrong.
C# Method like Base64String, but only alphanumeric (no plus or slash)
The answer in particular is from Mason G. Zhwiti. I was just doing Convert.Base64String instead of HttpServerUtility.UrlTokenEncode(byte[] b). After I did that I was able to get my response. I seemed that my URL had two equal symbols at the end. That was throwing off Facebooks URL validation. Once I did the appropriate method it started working.
I hope this helps anyone else who is struggling with this type of problem.
What is the specific error message - was it unauthorized redirect_uri?
I'm kind of oblivious to the variables - what are they for?
It doesn't seem like you should be doing the callback to a querystring URL, but maybe that's OK. When I first implemented OAuth2, I had the API calls originate from and callback to specific URLs for each provider, such as mysite.com/login-google.php or mysite.com/login-facebook.php, but now I have the callbacks point to the main site URL (mysite.com). Since we have index.php at the main site URL, we can intercept the callback in index.php and route them to the desired provider script (login-google.php or login-facebook.php) which cleans up the callback URLs and makes them a no-brainer for end-users to work with.
Your callback URL:
http://localhost:53016/social/callback?variables=Y2FsbGJhY2tfdXJsOi9MYW5kaW5nO2ZhbGxiYWNrX3VybDovQ29uc3VsdGFudC9TaWduVXA7bWV0aG9kOjE7cHJvdmlkZXI6MQ==
Can you access that callback URL in a browser? Code it up to throw an error or output a debug message so you know the callback URL is working.
I've documented the OAuth2 flow for Facebook quite cleanly in this code: https://github.com/perrybutler/WP-OAuth/blob/master/login-facebook.php
Hope it all helps...
So when using Facebook login, it turns out that if you set response_type to token or code%20token then the "response data is included as a URL fragment" on the URL that redirects to your app. Seriously, why? When would that ever be useful to anyone?
Anyway, I'm hoping that this is somehow security related and that it's there for a reason other than to annoy people, but I would otherwise like to know if there's a way to disable it, since I'm using Angular and it's a real pain to handle urls with hashbangs.
If I set a response_type of code only, the code is returned as a nice and clean query parameter, but I would like to receive both in order to perform additional validations. Is there a way to change this behaviour? Thanks.
EDIT:
Well it turns out that setting a response_type of code returns #/= at the end of the url, so there's no way to get a clean querystring. It has already been established that there is no way to change this behaviour, but I'm still interested in finding out why Facebook is doing it. Is it security related? What is the purpose of these url fragments?
Answers
To your first question, I imagine you would use token when you are handling everything in-browser and not processing at the server.
To your main question, as far as I know, you can not change how Facebook redirects successful authorizations. Facebook doesn't give you the token as a clean query parameter. If you use token or code token, what you want will be in the hash fragment. Sorry.
NOTE: This may not be a problem for you. I'm not sure what you want with "additional validations", but when you use code token, exchanging the resulting code gets you a different token than the one you just got embedded in the URI. Both are now valid and will expire separately. Really, you probably need either the code or the token; both won't help you since they're not linked.
Examples of using all three methods:
If you set response_type to code you get redirected to something like:
http://example.com/redirect_uri?state=thestatepassed&code=AQDN9E9GYjA8NbyCt
87_jV5vHnCQylNxmBswo6Z1BsrR7lmTPom6wjrzfan6P4GBLDt3EQrfPg0xSLoMLxBBfscsyfSY
JNM2vu9OoqEQXXSJCTUq_fMpUwqkYbCHp-GAqL4H1ymbMz7zPKAG61V9BtKTSuez39yhawOu7l-
6ww4thP41Ka9PVcknTQ6fPjPXKYSyxEmANps9zevCPFsXpBZCO7_dms65-ZZuG2wVBd16gFnBZH
q8EY0qih6-9o61wXh7bBvVPVSZ2im7Oj1nx47YgDpbD3X0XdlVhUoGYmBdER9hNmIC2PmmY7VAo
PlYCZc#_-_
From there, you need to exchange the code through Facebook's OAuth endpoint to receive an access token. The access token can then be used against the Facebook APIs.
If you set response_type to token you get redirected to something like:
http://example.com/redirect_uri#access_token=CAACYnSxGEhsBAJBg0ohZBhAf7pKEU
sm5ytZAZBzKjISFuRun2ZByZCqEsxrVIgtiO7iIlJZBBbGm6fRPQXItZCX6YgjPknUBsr78tJtv
W6fySULrUo9vdW57ZCMUUIlNaeZAcU8DzUXKmFpgotOyhE3jXYz1c3eu00Aii0AZBsPrtrwjpwQ
mV8VYQNiqKZBIsqOrIwZD&expires_in=4168&state=thestatepassed
You have everything you need to call the Facebook APIs. The access token returned is valid, but should probably be checked against Facebook's token inspection endpoint if you're doing something server-side. (Really, at that point, just use code. I've never done it this way, so good luck.)
As you noted, the access token is now contained within the hash fragment of the url.
If you set response_type to code token you get redirected to something like:
http://example.com/redirect_uri#code=AQAtzsjPivFPsJ538KFlPuhLaK6pDMlrGDiwmi
KDcpgNfWrO1EdX5i6zK_Op2D0QDEXZLyifXxh4TSeBZCWhnkl7YV1LMyEkbPURAWSoqRoeG7tfM
4nB4nDAHOK0H9umb0KnoypRT1pP05FJKhl2QjpCJrPPFDHl6y-1X9ZMj1uVHtmPNi4tG_6QAbuL
RaGadBkekb22uJ0iwSrWc9OKi6ET70lCTYb18hbwUkzHXtTq12nNEdsDJ7Ku2wEBwMygFwErYDX
CrnPoFoah_z0UPCfv3XZLy98Dhlzw_lnx8nnCB-PCppOWRqmydvQJehPd86k&access_token=C
AACYnSxGEhsBALXHRQwfm4UoauRlZBJDVpZCiM6ZCuM3bE965F5JVBfBB8inTFdhfJ5obnonSqa
m3v8FbWhHXrhRSx4ugwAmmDaWyxmPELWqSrkrDO5ueTUXhhjiEZBTd7HjCVCSOXXhOSo3DjEVSC
lOaZBfqmXsprYyc6LJC39sroCcHYCZCv&expires_in=5183426&state=thestatepassed
Now you have both an access token and a code (that expiration applies to the token, not the code). As stated earlier, that code can be exchanged for an access token in the usual way, but the returned access token will be different from the one you just got embedded in the URI.
But, again, what you care about is in the hash fragment.
See the AngularJS doc on $location for accessing the hash. Someone more knowledgable than me can speak to how that works with routes and how best to scrape the parameters.
Well today I had the same situation and managed to resolve it in a way I could get the access token from my server.
After getting the code using response_type=code I called via GET the following url:
https://graph.facebook.com/v3.2/oauth/access_token?app_id=MY_APP_ID&code=MY_CODE&client_id=MY_APP_ID&client_secret=MY_APP_SECRET&redirect_uri=YOUR_LOGIN_REDIRECT_URI
This route returns a JSON response, which has the access_token parameter, in this way:
{
"access_token": "ABAECAEFAEFAEA...",
"type": "bearer",
"expires_in": 838383838
}
So there you go :) I hope this works for you too
I'm trying to authenticate facebook users into a web-app i'm building without the javascript SDK, I'm following This guide. In the first step (where I'm supposed to send the appId along with the redirect_uri),
I have the redirect_uri set to "http%3A%2F%2Feduudle.com%2Fborhom2", it works as expected and sends the code parameter to the backend.
However, in the second step where I'm supposed to send the code along with the client_secret and the redirect_uri, I send the same redirect_uri and it doesn't work. I get the following message "Error validating verification code. Please make sure your redirect_uri is identical to the one you used in the OAuth dialog request"
I have tried the slash at the end, replacing the : with %3A and the / with %2F. I'm 100% sure that the redirect_uri is EXACTLY the same as the one I'm sending in the get request.
The only case where I'd be wrong is if I misunderstood what the redirect_uri is and how to change it from facebook. Try it yourself "http:// eduudle.com / borhom"
I'm 100% sure that the redirect_uri is EXACTLY the same as the one I'm sending in the get request.
Doesn’t look like that.
Clicking login on your sample page redirects me to
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=461627793920081&
redirect_uri=http://eduudle.com/borhom2&scope=…
whereas the Graph URL giving the error afterwards is like this,
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?code=…&client_secret=…&
redirect_uri=http://eduudle.com/&client_id=461627793920081#_=_
So check your code for the part where that URL is generated and redirected to – I’m pretty sure its your mistake ;-(
According to this Microsoft api page
http ://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh826522#reading_albums
, I tried to translate this browser access skydrive URL
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=0A263A7CBEAAFB80&sc=photos#cid=0A263A7CBEAAFB80&id=A263A7CBEAAFB80%214521&sc=photos
to
http://apis.live.net/v5.0/folder.0A263A7CBEAAFB80.A263A7CBEAAFB80!4521
Since the album is shared to public, I should be allowed to access without access token.Am I missed something? Or is just using the wrong URL?
I notice I can get public profile by using this
https ://apis.live.net/v5.0/0A263A7CBEAAFB80/
And I have read the REST API
http ://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh243648.aspx
, but I found it is hard to deduce the correct url format
This get all albums
https ://apis.live.net/v5.0/0A263A7CBEAAFB80/albums
REST URL also fails.
I've been looking for a guide for this as well, but just noticed that your URL appears to have an additional '/' in it. The one listed on the site is:
https://apis.live.netv5.0/%fileid%
Were you able to get this to work?
I'm using FB.login on the JS client and want to verify the user's identity on the server. So, the client gets a signedRequest from facebook and sends it to the server. The server splits on the period, and decodes the second part of the signedRequest into a json object.
What should I be using for "code" when I send my server-side request to
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?
client_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&redirect_uri=YOUR_REDIRECT_URI
&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET
&code=CODE_GENERATED_BY_FACEBOOK
My decoded json looks something like:
{"algorithm":"HMAC-SHA256","code":"2.AQCPA_yfx4JHpufjP.3600.1335646800.1-5702286|l11asGeDQTMo3MrMx3SC0PksALj6g","issued_at":1335642445,"user_id":"5232286"}
Is that the code I need? Does it need to be B64 encoded? If this isn't the code, what code should I use?
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What I've tried:
The request I'm trying to use is:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?client_id=295410083869479&redirect_uri=https://squaredme.appspot.com/facebookredirect&client_secret=44f1TOPSECRETbb8e&code=2.AQCPA_yfx4JHpufjP.3600.1335646800.1-5702286|l11asGeDQTMo3MrMx3SC0PksALj6g
but this returns the error:
{"error":{"message":"Error validating verification code.","type":"OAuthException","code":100}}
I can't tell if this is because I'm using a bad code, or what. Noteably, this is running on my local dev server, and squaredme.appspot.com definitely does NOT resolve to my IP. I don't know if facebook checks that or what - I'm assuming I'd get a better error message. Thanks for any direction!
You are trying to somehow combine the two flows together and that's why things don't work well.
When facebook POSTs into the iframe with your app url and a signed request there are two options, the easy one being that the user is already authenticated and then the signed request will have all the necessary data (including a signed request), then you just load the canvas page and use the JS SDK to get an access token there as well, but in this case there's no need to use the FB.login (since it opens a popup and will automatically close it), you can use the FB.getLoginStatus method which won't annoy the user.
If the user is not authenticated then the sign request will be missing the things you need to use the graph api.
You then redirect the user to the auth dialog, and since you are loaded in an iframe you'll need to return a html response which redirects the parent window using javascript, like:
top.location.href = "AUTH_DIALOG_URL";
When the use is done (accepted or rejected the app) he will be redirected to the "redirect_uri" you added as a parameter to the auth dialog.
If the user accepted your app then you'll be getting the "code" parameter in the query string.
You then take the code, exchange it with an access token as you posted in your question, and then redirect the user back to "apps.facebook.com/YOUR_APP".
When the page then loads the user is already authenticated and you'll be getting a full signed request.
I hope this clarifies things for you, recheck the Server-Side flow it pretty much covers it all.
I also had some trouble with that, then I found the solution here in StackOverflow.
There are two kinds of "code" provided by facebook. One comes inside the signedRequest in the cookie generated by the client-side flow. The Facebook's JS SDK handles this codes and get a access token without telling us anything.
The other type of code comes attached as a query to your redirect URI (http://www.yoururl.com/index.php?code=AAAgyiaus...), when you navigate to OAuth URL (server-side flow). With this code, you go to a Token URL and get your access token.
When you are using the server-side flow, you need to indicate a redirect URI both in the OAuth URL AND in the Token URL, and they have to be exactly the same, so a missing slash or a query string can be a lot of problem.
The codes are different from each other. When you use the both things together, appears to be impossible to get a access token using the code that was inside the cookie's signedRequest.
BUT, it is not. The magic is: the code from signedRequest is associated with NO URI, so as long as the redirect_uri is a mandatory field, all you have to do is to pass it blank when you navigate to the Token URL.
So the final solution is: grab the signedRequest from the cookie, parse it in your server to obtain the code, then read the Token URL:
https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?
client_id=YOUR_APP_ID
&redirect_uri=&client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET
&code=CODE_INSIDE_THE_SIGNED_REQUEST
It looks like a hack, so I don't know how long it's gonna work, but it's working right now.