byoogle/frictionless — Issue #1: Independent and Yahoo clickthroughs silently fail
Author: byoogle
Created: 2011-11-30 23:52:01+00:00
State: open

These two apps, seemingly, need to be installed to read the articles. Since we're automagically clicking cancel buttons, users get sent back to wherever they came from.

But we should be able to redirect users to the articles instead.

Here are two examples -- the article URLs are encoded in the query strings:

https://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php?app_id=235586169789578&method=permissions.request&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Feducation%2Fschools%2Fcould-this-be-the-end-of-gcses-and-alevels-2202648.html%3Ffb_action_ids%3D10150448928009124%252C10150485368865149%252C10150485365505149%252C10151008442915054%252C10151008441390054%26fb_action_types%3Dnews.reads%26fb_source%3Dother_multiline&response_type=token&display=page&perms=publish_actions&auth_referral=1

https://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php?app_id=194699337231859&method=permissions.request&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fsullinger-scores-21-no-2-osu-routs-no-044725701.html%3Ffb_action_ids%3D10150448928009124%252C10150485368865149%252C10150485365505149%252C10151008442915054%252C10151008441390054%26fb_action_types%3Dnews.reads%26fb_source%3Dother_multiline&response_type=code&display=page&perms=email%2Cpublish_actions%2Cuser_birthday%2Cuser_likes&auth_referral=1

The article URLs also show up in the HTML, unencoded: