Open Facebook Login popup instead of redirecting to login page in the same window

[ghost]

Thanks a lot for this wonderful libraray. I have a doubt with the current behaviour of my application wrt to facebook connect and I was wondering if you could help me,

Is there a way by which I could open the facebook login page in a new modal window , instead of redirecting user to log in page on the same window and than redirecting him back to the application once he is authorized. I know there is a way of doing that using the javascript sdk but i am looking for server side authorization.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[omab]

You could try opening the login page on a popup, that will show Facebook login/authorization form in the popup (maybe the mobile version suites better, I'm not sure if facebook has a popup version for server side auth). Finally when completing the loging you just close the popup with JS.

Makes sense?
Matías

PD: I'm closing the bug because this is not really a bug, but we can keep the discussion on.

[ghost]

Thanks a lot for your reply. But i am still not sure how to go about doing
this. The problem is facebook login page belongs to a completely different
domain and hence i cant attach events to the popup window. So i dnt know how
would i find out when user has logged in and i can close the popup window.

Regards
Ritesh Kadmawala

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:35 PM, omab <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

You could try opening the login page on a popup, that will show Facebook
login/authorization form in the popup (maybe the mobile version suites
better, I'm not sure if facebook has a popup version for server side auth).
Finally when completing the loging you just close the popup with JS.

Makes sense?
Matas

PD: I'm closing the bug because this is not really a bug, but we can keep
the discussion on.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#140 (comment)

Regards

Ritesh Kadmawala

[omab]

Yes, but Facebook will redirect back to your app when user logged in and you can make that return-back view a simple page that just does a popup-close JS line. Basically it will like this:

1. Open popup to social auth /login/facebook/ view
2. Popup will load Facebook login page
3. User logins/accepts the app
4. Facebook redirect backs social auth /complete/facebook/ view
5. Social auth app makes the user login and redirects to view defined by SOCIAL_AUTH_LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL setting.
6. You defined a view under that final URLs that just closes the template.

I'm not really sure, but I think you can produce the same with iframes instead of a window popup, and you can embed that iframe in a modal dialog generated by any JS library around.

[ghost]

thanks a lot. I was able to figure out how to do it as soon as i sent you an
email. Anyways it was nice of you to still help me with the solution.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Matas Aguirre <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

Yes, but Facebook will redirect back to your app when user logged in and
you can make that return-back view a simple page that just does a
popup-close JS line. Basically it will like this:

1. Open popup to social auth /login/facebook/ view
2. Popup will load Facebook login page
3. User logins/accepts the app
4. Facebook redirect backs social auth /complete/facebook/ view
5. Social auth app makes the user login and redirects to view defined by
   SOCIAL_AUTH_LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL setting.
6. You defined a view under that final URLs that just closes the template.

I'm not really sure, but I think you can produce the same with iframes
instead of a window popup, and you can embed that iframe in a modal dialog
generated by any JS library around.
6.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
#140 (comment)

Regards

Ritesh Kadmawala

[camilonova]

Can you please what you sent in the email? i would like to see the example

[bimboy]

hi can someone please email me a sample code with the solution for this problem. thank you

bimboy143@gmail.com

[cliffrwong]

Hi. I have the popup login window automatically close after login. But I want to update the original window that the user has logged in. Any idea how to send the signal back to the original window? Thanks!