Social Sharing fails silently if JSONP request fails

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I attempted to share a link to a question on my Askbot hosted site on Facebook. I clicked on the Facebook icon, but nothing happened. I clicked on it a few times, and nothing continued to happen:

Social sharing buttons.

I checked my web inspector, and I noticed that the JSONP request was getting a 503 response:

Screen shot of web inspector indicating that the request to json-tinyurl.appspot.com was returning a 503.

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There should probably be some kind of feedback when these requests fail.

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todofixthis

asked 2012-04-24 23:03:15 -0600, updated 2013-01-06 19:13:12 -0600

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Also, something should be done about those pesky 503 errors, but aside from that, we need better feedback when the requests fail (:

todofixthis (2012-04-24 23:03:59 -0600) edit

Also also, the notice about event.layerX and event.layerY being deprecated also occurs when I click on the Facebook icon as well (also present in the screenshot).

todofixthis (2012-04-24 23:05:54 -0600) edit

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Verified. Thanks!

todofixthis (2012-04-25 12:15:27 -0600) edit

Hi, 7 months later and the problem still exists. Can you either exchange the provider or just use the full URL if tinyurl replies with 503?

siovene (2012-11-08 00:00:45 -0600) edit

Hey, I wrote a patch to disable tinyurl and optionally provide one's own short url for questions: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/pull/100

siovene (2012-11-08 06:07:29 -0600) edit

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Social Sharing fails silently if JSONP request fails