iPad: Cannot load facebook page wall in UIWebview

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Published on 2012-09-27T12:44:09Z Indexed on 2012/11/03 11:01 UTC
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Its already too long i am struggling with this issue. After searching a lot I decided to post a question here.

What my app does

  1. Captures photo
  2. Uploads the photo on the wall of the page
  3. Displays the facebook page wall in a UIWebview after upload is complete

Everything was working as expected 4 days back :) Suddenly something went wrong :(

Code

    NSString *facebookPageURL =@"https://m.facebook.com/pages/<myPageName>/<myPageID>?v=wall"
    UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:kAppFrame];
    [webView setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
    [webView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
    webView.delegate = self;
    [webView setHidden: YES];

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[facebookPageURL stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] relativeToURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://login.facebook.com"]];
    NSMutableURLRequest *request = nil;

    if(url)
        request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];        
       [webView loadRequest:request];
    [self.view addSubview:webView];
    [webView reload];
    [self.view bringSubviewToFront:webView];
    webView = nil;

Scenario

  1. If I open the url facebookPageURL in Safari in iOS Simulator it works well
  2. If I open the url in any browser on Mac it works well
  3. In webView I see a white screen
  4. If I change the facebookPageURL to remove ?v=wall to ?v=info I am stil able to see the page.(not blank screen atleast).

Note 1. My facebook Page is NOT unpublished and is visible. 2. I have cross checked the facebook page permissions.

I suspect there is something changed on facebook side overnight.

Please guide.

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