Looping Redirect with PyFacebook and Google App Engine
- by Nick Gotch
I have a Python Facebook project hosted on Google App Engine and use the following code to handle initialization of the Facebook API using PyFacebook.
# Facebook Initialization
def initialize_facebook(f):
# Redirection handler
def redirect(self, url):
logger.info('Redirecting the user to: ' + url)
self.response.headers.add_header("Cache-Control", "max-age=0")
self.response.headers.add_header("Pragma", "no-cache")
self.response.out.write('<html><head><script>parent.location.replace(\'' + url + '\');</script></head></html>')
return 'Moved temporarily'
auth_token = request.params.get('auth_token', None)
fbapi = Facebook(settings['FACEBOOK_API_KEY'], settings['FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY'], auth_token=auth_token)
if not fbapi:
logger.error('Facebook failed to initialize')
if fbapi.check_session(request) or auth_token:
pass
else:
logger.info('User not logged into Facebook')
return lambda a: redirect(a, fbapi.get_login_url())
if fbapi.added:
pass
else:
logger.info('User does not have ' + settings['FACEBOOK_APP_NAME'] + ' added')
return lambda a: redirect(a, fbapi.get_add_url())
# Return the validated API
logger.info('Facebook successfully initialized')
return lambda a: f(a, fbapi=fbapi)
I'm trying to set it up so that I can drop this decorator on any page handler method and verify that the user has everything set up correctly. The issue is that when the redirect handler gets called, it starts an infinite loop of redirection.
I tried using an HTTP 302 redirection in place of the JavaScript but that kept failing too. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?
I saw this similar question but there are no answers.
