[google-appengine] Re: request: versions accessed by URL param rather than prefix?
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Ben Nevile ben.nev...@gmail.com wrote: Sadly I cannot redirect before returning to Facebook. I can ask Facebook to redirect, but if I redirect to a non-canvas page it won't render within the Facebook environment. Does that make sense? For example, if I wanted to redirect to 2.latest.myapp.appspot.com I can send Facebook this directive: fb:redirect url='http://2.latest.myapp.appspot.com' / Why can't you do a normal HTTP 304 redirect? Dave. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] Re: request: versions accessed by URL param rather than prefix?
Dave, When dealing with Facebook and FBML you can't do a 304 redirect. Facebook is making the request to your server on behalf of the user. Ben On Jan 6, 1:35 am, David Symonds dsymo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Ben Nevile ben.nev...@gmail.com wrote: Sadly I cannot redirect before returning to Facebook. I can ask Facebook to redirect, but if I redirect to a non-canvas page it won't render within the Facebook environment. Does that make sense? For example, if I wanted to redirect to 2.latest.myapp.appspot.com I can send Facebook this directive: fb:redirect url='http://2.latest.myapp.appspot.com'/ Why can't you do a normal HTTP 304 redirect? Dave. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] Re: request: versions accessed by URL param rather than prefix?
Ben, I also am developing FB apps with GAE. I set up a Google Group for this: http://groups.google.com/group/facebook-and-google-app-engine and we've touched on the topic of how to best do app versioning there too. Your proposal is interesting! That group isn't a substitute for this one, but it's a good supplemental place to get all the FB+GAE people together under one virtual roof. Stop by and say hello :) On Jan 5, 12:13 pm, Ben Nevile ben.nev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Much of my work with App Engine is on Facebook applications. Facebook acts as a proxy through which all requests flow. Every application registers a callback URL that Facebook directs traffic at. So for instance http://apps.facebook.com/my_application/foo becomes http://my_application.appspot.com/foo One of my favorite GAE features is that I can access and test different versions of my App Engine code. Under most circumstances the URL subdomain-based access (eg, 1.latest.my_application.appspot.com, 2.latest.my_application.appspot.com, etc) is very convenient, but this convention doesn't fit well with Facebook's idea of the fixed callback URL. I can set up a dummy application to access the version of code that I want, but this is A. kludgy and B. inconvenient because all of the social context is absent in the dummy application (other friends using the app, etc.) I would very much like to be able to access different versions of my code using a query parameter. Then I could test my Facebook apps with URLs like http://apps.facebook.com/my_application/foo?APP_VERSION=2 which would be translated into http://my_application.appspot.com/foo?APP_VERSION=2 I'm hoping something like this already possible. If not, consider this a feature request! :) Ben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] Re: request: versions accessed by URL param rather than prefix?
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Ben Nevile ben.nev...@gmail.com wrote: When dealing with Facebook and FBML you can't do a 304 redirect. Facebook is making the request to your server on behalf of the user. So it's Facebook that doesn't follow 304 redirects? That sounds broken. Dave. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] Re: request: versions accessed by URL param rather than prefix?
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, David Symonds dsymo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Ben Nevile ben.nev...@gmail.com wrote: When dealing with Facebook and FBML you can't do a 304 redirect. Facebook is making the request to your server on behalf of the user. So it's Facebook that doesn't follow 304 redirects? That sounds broken. An alternative workaround would be to do a urlfetch to your own application from your main handler, which can then contain the version switching logic. Dave. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[google-appengine] Re: request: versions accessed by URL param rather than prefix?
Hi, There is nothing currently built-in that would allow you to do what you described. However, it would be _very_ easy to check for that parameter yourself in a request and redirect the request to the appropriate version number if it the version listed is not the default. -Marzia On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Ben Nevile ben.nev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Much of my work with App Engine is on Facebook applications. Facebook acts as a proxy through which all requests flow. Every application registers a callback URL that Facebook directs traffic at. So for instance http://apps.facebook.com/my_application/foo becomes http://my_application.appspot.com/foo One of my favorite GAE features is that I can access and test different versions of my App Engine code. Under most circumstances the URL subdomain-based access (eg, 1.latest.my_application.appspot.com, 2.latest.my_application.appspot.com, etc) is very convenient, but this convention doesn't fit well with Facebook's idea of the fixed callback URL. I can set up a dummy application to access the version of code that I want, but this is A. kludgy and B. inconvenient because all of the social context is absent in the dummy application (other friends using the app, etc.) I would very much like to be able to access different versions of my code using a query parameter. Then I could test my Facebook apps with URLs like http://apps.facebook.com/my_application/foo?APP_VERSION=2 which would be translated into http://my_application.appspot.com/foo?APP_VERSION=2 I'm hoping something like this already possible. If not, consider this a feature request! :) Ben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google App Engine group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
