Custom Facebook Applications and SSL
Custom Facebook applications are normally hosted on a server that is external from Facebook and all information brought into Facebook is translated through use of an iframe medium.
From 1st October, all information hosted externally of Facebook must have a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) applied to the location where it is hosted. Facebook hope that this will increase browsing security by changing the way custom applications are allowed to interact with Facebook.
An SSL is a security certificate and it encrypts your digital information to enhance your security. If your custom Facebook application does not have an SSL, it will no longer appear on your Facebook page after the beginning of October.
What does it mean for you?
If you have a custom Facebook application, you will need to ensure that an SSL is applied to the host location to ensure your custom application remains live.
Your application will either be hosted on your own server, or the server of the company that created it for you. If it is hosted on your own server you will need to purchase and install an SSL (this is easily purchased through web hosting companies and paid for annually).
If Red Crayon has created your custom Facebook application, we will be in touch over the next couple of weeks to advise and discuss the purchase and installation of a SSL on your server.
Red Crayon will be purchasing a SSL for our own environment and this will, in turn, ensure that if your custom Facebook application is hosted with us, it will meet these new requirements implemented by Facebook.
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