Talk:FBJS LocalProxy

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Is anyone else having problems using POST with localProxy enabled? Even using the example localProxy code, it appears that nothing is sent POST when localproxy is enabled. The requested page is: 
 http://example.com/bar.php?query=[object%20Object]
What is that Object? Disabling localProxy allows the POST to go through normally. Any thoughts on a fix? 893585135 11:36, 8 July 2008 (PDT)


Does it fallback to the proxy when the user doesn't have (the right) flash capabilities?

+1 to this question, I'm curious as well.
I used the following code to work with/without proxy : 
function ajaxPost(ajax, post) {
        ajax.useLocalProxy = true;
        try {
                ajax.post(url, post);
        } catch(e) {
                // most likely localproxy failed
                ajax.useLocalProxy = false;
                ajax.post(url, post);
        }
}
It fixes failure because flash isn't installed. For other cases, I guess you need to handle onerror 532974378 16:25, 27 March 2008 (PDT)


Wow its almost like i thought of this (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Talk:FBJS#Access_to_fbjs_fbml_string.28html.29) and got yelled at when i did ("unacceptable" to quote the response).. just had to "discuss" my frustration with the obvious two faced appearance here.

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[edit] LocalProxy and login?

From what I found out when testing, it seems to be impossible to keep a session and use LocalProxy. I'd suggest to use a private session identifier, and check it (pass it via post), still it's far from what we would expect from a clean code :) Anyone did have to workaround that? 532974378 16:25, 27 March 2008 (PDT)

[edit] Need option to load crossdomain.xml from alternate location

We can't place policy files in the web server root and need to have policies for specific URLs. This technique would be far more useful if you could specify policy files to load on the fb:local-proxy tag.

[edit] Why does this need Flash

Can someone enlighten me as to why this needs Flash? Seems like a fairly odd requirement. jQuery can cope with making AJAX calls without Flash... As can fairly standard Javascript.

[edit] Broken as of June 19th, 2009

As of today, June 19th, 2009, this morning, LocalProxy seems to be suddenly broken for IE users. (IE6/IE7/etc.) If using ajax.useLocalProxy = true, after ajax.post(), nothing happens at all. Does not call either ajax.ondone or ajax.onerror functions. It was working fine before. Firefox still works fine as we speak.

Also I don't think it ever really worked for Safari either. Same behavior.

Please file a bug and include as much information as you can, including the code used to repro this. Thanks, Pete (563683308 10:44, 22 June 2009 (PDT))
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