657689 - Web Hero: Internet Explorer 8 has intermittent layout/canvas_proxy errors

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: Facebook, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

There are intermittent canvas proxy errors in IE 8 (at least over HTTPS); see screencast: http://screencast.com/t/7uK8Zd09O

STR:

1. Load http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=153855034679517&sk=app_153855034679517 using IE 8
2. Click "No" on the pop-up that asks you if you only wanted to load the secure content (not yet sure if this step is necessary)
3. Scroll up/down the page -- notice the layout and the error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)
Timestamp: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:23:35 UTC


Message: Permission denied
Line: 90
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://static.ak.facebook.com/connect/canvas_proxy.php?version=1

(Looks like this error comes from Facebook itself -- is it an API our app is using?)

Comment 1

[Zach Allia]

This is unresolvable on our end, there are definitely bugs about this filed with Facebook.. but not worth waiting on them as they take a long time to close.