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I know there are about a hundred questions of this on SO, but none of them are maybe up-to-date with what seems to be happening on facebook platform right now. It seems the switch that turns off SSL is disabled:
It may be hard to see, but the "Enforce HTTPS" toggle is greyed out and can't be toggled. I'm all for enforcing HTTPS in production, but is everyone who is building against facebook API really setting up an SSL certificate on their local server just for this?
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You need to register as facebook developer and create you app there. Once you have your web app registered you can go to your app and click on add product. Add Facebook Login. Then enable Web OAuth Login and add your localhost in the textfield below and save, you should be able to access it.
This setting is in the Products > Facebook Login > Settings section of the App Dashboard. Disable this setting if you are not building a custom web login flow or using the Facebook Login SDK on the web. Enforce HTTPS.
Sometimes, you need to run your local development site with HTTPS. Tools and tips to do this safely and quickly. Most of the time, http://localhost does what you need: in browsers, it mostly behaves like HTTPS 🔒. That's why some APIs that won't work on a deployed HTTP site, will work on http://localhost .
We now use https by default for all Facebook users. This feature, which we first introduced as an option two years ago, means that your browser is told to communicate with Facebook using a secure connection, as indicated by the "https" rather than "http" in https://www.facebook.com.
You will still be able to use HTTP with “localhost” addresses, but only while your app is still in development mode.
You can change the App mode to Development Mode from App Dashboard:
In this mode you can only test your application with Facebook test user accounts. You can obtain the test accounts login credentials from your app dashboard.
Please note, http://localhost redirects are automatically allowed while in development mode only and do NOT need to be added in Valid OAuth Redirect URIs section.
Read more about it in this Facebook Blog.
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