[Facebooker-talk] Possible Bug in Facebooker's Connect support (secure_with_cookies!) ?

[Mike Mangino]

Thanks! I pulled this in along with another fix from Kevin Lochner. I  
also bumped the version number to generate new gems.

Mike

On Jan 21, 2009, at 5:36 PM, vincent chu wrote:

> Facebooker folks ---
>
> I was having trouble running the facebook-connect tutorial (
> http://www.elevatedrails.com/articles/2009/01/02/announcing-facebooker-support-for-facebook-connect/
> ) --- I could log my test-account in, but I couldn't get a valid
> facebook_session to show up.
>
> I've traced the problem to Facebooker's "secure_with_cookies!" method
> and realized that if the user happens to have an infinite session, his
> 'expires' cookie is set to "0", which means that Facebooker will think
> that his cookie expired in 1969 -- hence no facebook_session for
> anybody with a persistent session key.
>
> I've gotten the tutorial to run successfully if I check for a
> persistent session_key in the method:
>
> return unless (Time.at(parsed['expires'].to_f) > Time.now) ||
> (parsed['expires'] == "0")
>
> Don't know if the method is written this way for a reason, but I
> thought I'd let you all now anyway ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vince
>
>
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