Facebook Developers

here is a good idea, just sit back and leave facebook alone for a few days because as soon as you get one thing working something else will break,.

I'm getting a lot of HTTP Error 500.  The app will work one second and then not the next.  Is this the behavior you're seeing?  This just started this morning.

Yes this seems to be related to the users_getInfo call for me.  Actually sometimes I seem to get a list of friends back and my app works fine. sometimes I get teh friends but I can't get the info. and sometimes the server just seems to die altogether.  what is going on?? this started today for me after no changes to my app since yesterday.

Thanks

so this is totally on facebook's side right? is it related to the updates they are doing you think?  nothing has changed with the getFriends or getInfo calls has it?

Hi
im getting problems checking if are_friends! also getting CSS issues:

CSS Error (line 32 char 41): Expected end of value for property....

Anyone else getting this one?

I'm getting issues sending messages with web links (with the AJAX-y thumbnail machine)

I'm trying to understand why only certain apps have this issue.   It's impossible to run a business when your competition seems to be on a separate cluster running perfectly fine and you cannot get a single API call without timing out!!!
FACEBOOK - PLEASE HELP!!!

Thank you for reporting this issue guys. We're aware of this and our engineers are currently working on a solution. To help us out a bit, and make sure we get everything.

For all of you having problems it would very helpful for you to specify as much detail about the problem as possible. For example if it's an API call that's failing, please detail what call it is, how it's failing (no response, error code, intermittent failing, etc.), whether you're hitting api.new.facebook.com or not, and when you started to see this issue.

We will alert you when we get this resolved.

Thanks,
Matt Choi

Having similar problems over here. 

I'm working in .NET and using the Facebook Developer Toolkit.  I started getting the error today, and have never seen it before today.

I seem to be getting the error very randomly.  The only pattern I've seen is that it comes in waves - everything will be fine for a few hours, but then it will get, like, really bad for a half hour or so.  I get the error mostly when I'm trying to instantiate a Facebook service, although I also get them when I call getUserInfo() and directFqlQuery().

This is the error I get :

System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Here is the function in the Facebook Developer Toolkit where the exception is thrown :

        internal static string GetQueryResponse(string requestUrl, string postString)
        {
            // Create a web request for input path.
            WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl);
            webRequest.Method = "POST";
            webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(postString)) {
                byte[] parameterString = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postString);
                webRequest.ContentLength = parameterString.Length;

                using (Stream buffer = webRequest.GetRequestStream()) {
                    buffer.Write(parameterString, 0, parameterString.Length);
                    buffer.Close();
                }
            }

            WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();

            string responseData;
            using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream())) {
                responseData = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
            }
            return responseData;
        }

I should note that I haven't made any serious changes to my app in the last few days.

I am getting:

WARNING IsterXmlExpatNonValid->parse(): expat: Invalid document end [0/1/1]

Fatal error: Call to a member function CDATA() on a non-object

.. this occurs randomly. I noticed it last week but it went away. In the last 12 hours it has all gone to hell in a handbag..

JeremyPollack wrote:

Having similar problems over here. 

I'm working in .NET and using the Facebook Developer Toolkit.  I started getting the error today, and have never seen it before today.

I seem to be getting the error very randomly.  The only pattern I've seen is that it comes in waves - everything will be fine for a few hours, but then it will get, like, really bad for a half hour or so.  I get the error mostly when I'm trying to instantiate a Facebook service, although I also get them when I call getUserInfo() and directFqlQuery().

This is the error I get :

System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

Here is the function in the Facebook Developer Toolkit where the exception is thrown :

        internal static string GetQueryResponse(string requestUrl, string postString)
        {
            // Create a web request for input path.
            WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl);
            webRequest.Method = "POST";
            webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(postString)) {
                byte[] parameterString = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postString);
                webRequest.ContentLength = parameterString.Length;

                using (Stream buffer = webRequest.GetRequestStream()) {
                    buffer.Write(parameterString, 0, parameterString.Length);
                    buffer.Close();
                }
            }

            WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();

            string responseData;
            using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream())) {
                responseData = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
            }
            return responseData;
        }

I should note that I haven't made any serious changes to my app in the last few days.

I got this error many times today. Looks like that there is a problem with Facebook servers..

NB Im using .NET too.

as of right now it looks good.  i am not getting errors.  i will update this thread as i continue to work throughout the night.  thx.