At the moment I am attempting to share a link on Facebook without the use of JavaScript or a Facebook app id.
Previously I could have a hyperlink to: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=urlhere and Facebook would scrape for og:tags and allow me to share a site.
At the moment I'm encountering a 500 error when I attempt to submit a link that has not previously been crawled by Facebook.
How to reproduce the bug
- Find a new link that you're certain hasn't been crawled by FB. Good examples of this are tweets.
- Attempt to visit
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.phpand paste in your link - Submit the form and see the post preview
- Attempt to submit the post
- If you've used a fresh URL there is a good chance you'll get a 500 error similar to:
POST https://www.facebook.com/ajax/sharer/submit_page/ 500 (Internal Server Error) - If you refresh the page and attempt to submit the same URL again, it will post successfully.
- Once the link has been crawled by Facebook, it works without problems
Anyone having similar problems with this method of sharing?
