Facebook access token changes

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Kristján Pétursson

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Jan 21, 2012, 7:08:12 PM1/21/12
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Facebook is doing away with the offline_access permission that the locker currently uses, as well as the 1-hour tokens an app gets each time a user visits. Instead, all tokens last 30 days and appear to be extendable with an API call. To keep synching properly, looks like the locker will have to hit that endpoint at least every 30 days.

This is briefly mentioned at

and linked to more detail in

Merci Victoria Grace

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Jan 23, 2012, 12:28:38 PM1/23/12
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Good heads up, Kristjan! :-)

Apps that have used offline access will continue to have permissions (ie, they're grandfathering us in) but we will need the new tokens for any new accounts. 

Matt Zimmerman

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Jan 23, 2012, 5:42:19 PM1/23/12
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Filed as https://github.com/LockerProject/Locker/issues/608

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:28:38AM -0800, Merci Victoria Grace wrote:
> Good heads up, Kristjan! :-)
>
> Apps that have used offline access will continue to have permissions (ie,
> they're grandfathering us in) but we will need the new tokens for any new
> accounts.
>

> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Kristj�n P�tursson <kris...@singly.com>wrote:
>
> > Facebook is doing away with the offline_access permission that the locker
> > currently uses, as well as the 1-hour tokens an app gets each time a user
> > visits. Instead, all tokens last 30 days and appear to be extendable with
> > an API call. To keep synching properly, looks like the locker will have to
> > hit that endpoint at least every 30 days.
> >
> > This is briefly mentioned at
> > http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/633/ (search for offline_access)
> >
> > and linked to more detail in
> > https://developers.facebook.com/docs/offline-access-deprecation/
> >

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- mdz

Merci Victoria Grace

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Jan 23, 2012, 5:52:24 PM1/23/12
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Sweet - added to LOGO.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Matt Zimmerman <m...@singly.com> wrote:
Filed as https://github.com/LockerProject/Locker/issues/608

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:28:38AM -0800, Merci Victoria Grace wrote:
> Good heads up, Kristjan! :-)
>
> Apps that have used offline access will continue to have permissions (ie,
> they're grandfathering us in) but we will need the new tokens for any new
> accounts.
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Kristján Pétursson <kris...@singly.com>wrote:
>
> > Facebook is doing away with the offline_access permission that the locker
> > currently uses, as well as the 1-hour tokens an app gets each time a user
> > visits. Instead, all tokens last 30 days and appear to be extendable with
> > an API call. To keep synching properly, looks like the locker will have to
> > hit that endpoint at least every 30 days.
> >
> > This is briefly mentioned at
> > http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/633/ (search for offline_access)
> >
> > and linked to more detail in
> > https://developers.facebook.com/docs/offline-access-deprecation/
> >

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 - mdz

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