Sending friend invites from a Facebook Connected site using new Javascript SDK

Question

I'm developing a standalone website application that makes use of Facebook Connect and the new Javascript SDK that was released in June.

I've been trying to get friend invites working. I'm able to send an invite using a request dialog (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/), but the URL that the user clicks through to when they accept the invite is the internal Facebook app page (http://apps.facebook.com/APP_ID/?request_ids=REQUEST_ID&ref=notif), not my site URL.

Is there any way to fix this so invites work with FB Connected web applications?

It seems this was possible with previous versions of the SDK.

I have seen some posts recommending a redirect from the canvas page, but I have also read that this can lead to the application being suspended by Facebook: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?pid=343257#p343257

Many thanks for assistance on this matter.

Answer 1

I would never expect Facebook to lead me to an external URL by accepting an invite via the request system - especially when most invites/requests tend to be spam.

Have you thought of distributing your invites via the Facebook Message system or sending them via email instead?

This would make the whole process a lot less misleading to a user.