Facebook login wont login

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We have the facebook api setup to login. In my OSQA account on our site I have authorized facebook and twitter already, so we know it's "working". So I log out and then attempt to login. When clicking the facebook icon it will pop open, and show the login page at facebook, however once you login and facebook closes the pop-up nothing happens on the OSQA site.

Answer 1

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Ah, ok, it looks like another CSRF-AJAX problem - see also this open ticket and this other meta question

In that case, the fix should be the same. Your workaround to disable CSRF will do the job, but will reduce the application's security. To get it working securely, find where in the code the AJAX request is made, and insert the CSRF tag into it - something like:

postvars['csrfmiddlewaretoken'] = $('#csrfmiddlewaretoken').val();

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answered 02 May '11, 23:50

Andrew_S ♦
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Thanks for the suggestion Andrew_S! My concern is that, if I tweak the source, this might cause a conflict if I do an 'svn update' in the future. Would it be better to wait for the official version in svn to be fixed and just update to that?

I like Levi's suggestion as it's simply a tweak of the settings file. However, as you mentioned, there are security implications to that workaround.

(03 May '11, 01:19) dharmatech

Answer 2

Go it! In settings.py comment out the two lines within MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfResponseMiddleware',

After that I can click and login with success. Best and thanks for the question that got me thinking better.

My current updated settings.py file, I updated some other items that are deprecated according to error logs:

TEMPLATE_LOADERS = [
    ##'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source',
    'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
    ##'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source',
    'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
    'forum.modules.template_loader.module_templates_loader',
    'forum.skins.load_template_source',
]

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    ##'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    ##'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfResponseMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'forum.middleware.extended_user.ExtendedUser',
    'forum.middleware.anon_user.ConnectToSessionMessagesMiddleware',
    'forum.middleware.request_utils.RequestUtils',
    'forum.middleware.cancel.CancelActionMiddleware',
    'forum.middleware.admin_messages.AdminMessagesMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',
]

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = [
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
    'forum.context.application_settings',
    'forum.user_messages.context_processors.user_messages',
    ##'django.core.context_processors.auth',
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
]

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