So i have a site, Let's call it foo.com
and all of the pages have the Like Button plugin on it (same code rehashed on each page)
so I 'like' http://foo.com
Posts on my wall with a link, all fine and dandy
I do the same with my Projects page - http://foo.com/projects
It says in the info when you like it (the drop down that happens as you click like,) that they have 'liked' http://foo.com/projects
. All is good; However the actual link on Facebook is :
http://foo.com/projects?fb_action_ids=10151073089123411&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B"10151073089123411"%3A10151036996391185%7D&action_type_map=%7B"10151073089123411"%3A"og.likes"%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
Not only is this ugly, it also means that the like button is not counting for the /projects page, but the new /projects?fbcrap=....
{edit}
Also noticed that you can infact get into an infinite loop.
Person A likes http://foo.com/projects
Person B clicks link http://foo.com/projects
from person A's wall
Person B liked http://foo.com/projects?randomhashstuff
Person C clicks link http://foo.com/projects?randomhashstuff
from person B's wall
Person C liked http://foo.com/projects?anotherrandomhash
Result:
/projects
= 1 like/projects?randomhash
= 1 like/projects?anotherrandomhash
= 1 likeWhere /projects
should have 3 likes.
Not only is it ugly, it also means that the like button is not counting for the /projects page, but the new /projects?fbcrap=WHYAREYOUHERE
Put the Open Graph meta tag for og:url
into your /projects
page, and have it say the page’s URL is actually http://example.com/projects
, no matter what kind of query string parameters might be attached.
When Facebook’s scraper will fetch http://example.com/projects?fbcrap=WHYAREYOUHERE
when this address is about to be liked, Facebook will realize that the actual address/URL is just http://example.com/projects
, and it should therefor count the like for this URL and not something else.
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