Facebook dialog appears but always says "An error has occurred"
- by Conor James
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
...
<head>
...
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<fb:like id="fb-like" href="http://www.example.com" layout="button_count" show_faces="false" width="100"></fb:like>
...
myscript.js:
FB.ui(
{
method: 'stream.publish',
message: 'getting educated about Facebook Connect',
attachment: {
name: 'Connect',
caption: 'The Facebook Connect JavaScript SDK',
description: (
'A small JavaScript library that allows you to harness ' +
'the power of Facebook, bringing the user\'s identity, ' +
'social graph and distribution power to your site.'
),
href: 'http://github.com/facebook/connect-js'
},
action_links: [
{ text: 'Code', href: 'http://github.com/facebook/connect-js' }
],
user_message_prompt: 'Share your thoughts about Connect'
},
function(response) {
if (response && response.post_id) {
alert('Post was published.');
} else {
alert('Post was not published.');
}
}
);
I have Facebook like button on my page which works fine.
But when I call the FB.ui method above from my JavaScript source, the Facebook dialog pops up but displays this error message:
**An error occurred. Please try again later.**
This has happened repeatedly for two days since I started trying to implement it.
Not a very helpful error message.
Any idea what might cause it or how to narrow down the problem?
