I have a page with a video on it .. say (http://example.com/123) and it provides all the og: meta tags for facebook... so when I make a post on FB with that url, facebook would automagically embed that video into the post. open graph tags such as these:
<meta property="og:title" content="My Title" />
<meta property="og:description" content="This is a description." />
<meta property="og:video" content="https://example.com/player.swf?id=123&autoplay=on&blah=12345&etc"/>
<meta... etc. etc>
This works great. However, I have a bunch of parameters on that swf player that I don't want facebook embed code to cache. For example, i might have the parameter
autoplay=on
but if hardcode that into the og:video string, all videos embedded has autoplay turned on by default and would be hard to change. Hence I want to have a level of indirection like:
<meta property="og:video" content="https://example.com/redirswf/123" />
where /redirswf/123 would redirect to the original full player.swf url
I tried this but when I post the url to FB, the video just doesn't play. I'm not sure how to debug this.. all I can think of is that FB is not following the 302 redirect when it tries to go to redirswf/123? can anyone confirm or deny?
And I did confirm via the facebook debugger tool that it's pulling out the og:video field as expected:
{
"url": "https:\/\/example.com\/redirswf\/123",
"secure_url": "https:\/\/example.com\/redirswf\/123",
"type": "application\/x-shockwave-flash",
"width": 640,
"height": 360
}
