[Plugin: WPBook] My post links are https… what did I do wrong?

What’s the url of your blog?

WPBook creates a filtered version of the permalink using the existing WordPress permalink – are all your permalinks HTTPS?

https://dunlaps.net/darius is the URL of the blog.

The permalinks are not https:// is you start at the regular URL. but they are if you start at the secure URL. (https://dunlaps.net/darius – you’ll get a warning because of my self-signed security certificates)

Thanks!

Do you have “promote external permalinks” on?

publish_to_facebook.php gets the permalink thusly:

if($wpbook_promote_external) {
      $my_permalink = get_permalink($post_ID);
    } else {
      $my_permalink = wpbook_always_filter_postlink(get_permalink($post_ID));
    }

It may be that indeed this runs in an https environment if you are in https when you publish the post?

I see that your tried to post one NOT using the https for the admin side – did it work?

I’m guessing you’re right, John. My most recent test post, from a non-secure admin interface, came through as regular https://…

I’m also going to see what it looks like when I turn off “Use external permalinks on Walls”.

d.

We could also add code to filter out the https – just needs to look at the first five characters of the permalink and if they are https replace them with http

Not sure if there’s a better way to get the permlink parts?

Interesting bug, John.

Turning off “Use external permalinks on Walls” basically fixes the problem. The title link now takes people to my “DariusBlog” app page on Facebook, and then the link from there to “View Post on Darius”, takes them to the non-secure link.

Check it out for yourself:

https://www.facebook.com/dariusdunlap

Is the code for generating the “View Post on Darius” link somehow smarter or different?

Not any smarter or different, just called in a different context. Call the get_permalink() inside an https session and you get https permalinks – call it in an http session and you get http permalinks.

We’ll have to add a filter to trap https links in the publish_to_facebook code

Should be in next release or maybe the one after – we’ve got a 2.0.10 we’re just trying to get tested and out the door – not sure we’ll get in that one

New problem. When posting from marsedit, the link to the facebook app comes through at “dariusblogs” instead of “dariusblog”. how weird is that?

d.

Hmm. So Mars Edit uses the XMLRPC client, yes?

I’ve no idea – is this reproducible? Anyone else using MarsEdit?

I tried recreating the entire integration, re-install of WPBook, new facebook App, setup everything from scratch, and got the same problem… well, this time it was
“darius-blogs” when it should have been “darius-blog”.

I’ve got Marsedit using the XMLRPC interface, yes.

Wierd, eh?

d.

So your blog itself outside FB lives at https://dunlaps.net/darius

Your facebook app lives at https://apps.facebook.com/dariusblog ?

Looking at that app, it doesn’t look to my like WPBook is being triggered – but maybe that’s because you’re still testing?

And when you write posts using the http interface directly in WordPress, they work fine, but when you write posts using Mars Edit, they have the wrong permalinks?

Where are you seeing the permalinks with the wrong url – in your wall postings, in a tab, or in the application canvas itself?

Yes, the http: vs. https: problem is confirmed. And the addition of a “s” to dariusblog in the facebook app permalink (https://apps.facebook.com/dariusblogs/PERMALINK ) is also confirmed.

I turned it all off and removed WPBook after installing everything again from scratch and having the same problem. (The second time I put the facebook app at https://apps.facebook.com/darius-blog)

If you have any suggestions, I’m happy to help troubleshoot. -)

d.