Facebook debugger is not parsing url correctly. Parses http://url.com instead of http://url.com?param=value

Question

I am trying to integrate opengraph in this website http://www.lsenow.com .

The person who wrote the theme used hard coded mysql instead of the functions already provided by WordPress to pull data from the database. I don't know if this is relevant. I just haven't seen that done, especially since it is unnecessary.

I am getting this message when putting this url (http://www.lsenow.com/?event=campus-tours-2) throught the debugger:

Object at URL '‎http://www.lsenow.com/‎' of type '‎events‎' is invalid because the given value '‎‎' >for property '‎og:image:url‎' could not be parsed as type '‎url‎'.

The facebook debugger is giving me this regarding the url:

Scrape Information
    Response Code‎: 200
    Fetched URL‎:   http://www.lsenow.com/?event=campus-tours-2
    Canonical URL‎: http://www.lsenow.com/

Redirect Path
    Original‎:  http://www.lsenow.com/?event=campus-tours-2
    301‎:   http://www.lsenow.com/

I tried many things, I tried:

< meta property="og:url" content="< ? php $url="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; echo $url; ?>" />'
< meta property="og:url" content="< ?php the_permalink() ?>
Adding < link rel="canonical" href="< ? php $url="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; echo $url; ?>"/>
< meta property="og:url" content="http://www.lsenow.com/?event=< ?php echo $_GET['event'];?>" />

Does anyone have a solution to this issue. I feel like I have added all the correct code.

here is what I have:

<!-------------------------- Open Graph ---------------------------->
<link rel="canonical" href="<?php $url="http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; echo $url; ?>"/>
<meta property="og:url" content="http://www.lsenow.com/?event=<?php echo $_GET['event'];?>" />
<meta property="og:title" content="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
<meta property="og:type" content="events"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://placehold.it/300x300"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="<?php bloginfo('name');?>"/>
<meta property="og:description" content="<?php the_excerpt();?>"/>
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="151709234971178" />
<!--------------------------End of Open Graph ---------------------------->

Though I got the error "Object at URL '‎lsenow.com‎' of type '‎events‎' is invalid because the given value '‎‎' >for property '‎og:image:url‎' could not be parsed as type '‎url‎'." in facebook debugger, fortunately when i shared my link in FB, it fetched right image. — chank

cpilko cpilko · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-03T12:28:22

It looks like Facebook doesn't like your placehold.it url in your og:image tag. Since your URL is has a query string in it, Facebook is redirecting to your main url.

Try replacing this with a static image from your site and see if it will parse.

You might also want to take a look at your .htaccess file and your code to see if there is something in there that might be redirecting the Facebook scraper.

Facebook debugger is not parsing url correctly. Parses http://url.com instead of http://url.com?param=value

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