Facebook "like" functionality in a kiosk

Question

I've been tasked by a client to write an application for a kiosk (think checkin machine at an airport) and one of the options for the users is to "like" my client in Facebook. I've read the plugin documentation and I am able to render a "like" button on a browser page, but then facebook pops up a login web browser window... my kiosk application can't have web browsers popping up (since it's a kiosk).

How can I successfully send a like request with little to no browser UI for the user? Any thoughts?

Thanks, ~Bill

Answer 1

The fundamental problem is that the user, in order to "like" something, must be authenticated with Facebook.

In the case of a public kiosk, if it is the deployment scenario of your app, I think that logging in with the Facebook credentials is not a good idea: would you trust a public kiosk and log in to Facebook with it?

I don't know if the Facebook authorization dialog can be embedded in an iframe or something like that, but I think that maybe the context is not appropriated for a like button.