Paste video not showing

Question

I'm trying to embed a flash player, I set the OG meta tags to look the same as SoundCloud or YouTube.

I'm having problems:

• The player is never displayed when using the Channel dialog (as in the og:image links to the common pages and does not replace the player, as is done for YouTube and SoundCloud).
• Player appears when you simply paste the URL into the "status" field on Facebook; however, it is sometimes displayed only if "Safe Browsing" is disabled.

My assumption about the second problem of safe browsing is that I just managed to break the OG tag while trying to fix the first.

 <meta property="fb:app_id" content="132849513527946" /> <meta property="og:type" content="video" /> <meta property="og:url" content="http://beta.mybabytales.com/memories/6780fd71d0be818657df2cbe379ffdb5" /> <meta property="og:title" content="MyBabyTales Memory: July 28, 2012" /> <meta property="og:description" content="MyBabyTales" /> <meta property="og:image" content="http://beta.mybabytales.com/video.gif" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="MyBabyTales" /> <meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://beta.mybabytales.com/player/dewplayer/dewplayer-vol.swf?showtime=true&amp;autostart=true&amp;mp3=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.twilio.com%2F2010-04-01%2FAccounts%2FACd883111c969a8582d86869ee98ea326f%2FRecordings%2FRE03bc1a2935e00f7ef466a1848ac9d00b.mp3" /> <meta property="og:video" content="http://beta.mybabytales.com/player/dewplayer/dewplayer-vol.swf?showtime=true&amp;autostart=true&amp;mp3=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.twilio.com%2F2010-04-01%2FAccounts%2FACd883111c969a8582d86869ee98ea326f%2FRecordings%2FRE03bc1a2935e00f7ef466a1848ac9d00b.mp3" /> <meta property="og:video:height" content="200" /> <meta property="og:video:width" content="460" /> <meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" /> 

Things I tried:

• Add / Remove Secure URL
• HTTPS only (for main video)
• Adding height / width (I believe this is optional)
• Using a Custom OG Type
• Using the built-in OG video type

Does anyone have this problem before? Or is there something obvious that I'm missing with OG tags?

Update : a report is published here , it will be updated if it is allowed there.

Answer 1

I encountered two reasons that caused such problems.

• https / og wrong tag setting. (unreliable certificate, without secure_url, unable to parse OG tags, etc.).
• crossdomain.xml is not configured correctly.

You can debug any problems with your OG tags using the Facebook OG debug tag . However, this is not like any issues with https or your OG tags.

So, the next thing I should check is your crossdomain.xml file, which looks like you didn’t install it. If you want, read the Adobe Cross-Domain Specification File . Essentially, it sets cross-domain policies for your Flash files. It lives in the root of your domain (http://example.com/crossdomain.xml). Here is what we have in our crossdomain.xml file:

 <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from domain="*"/> <site-control permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-only"/> </cross-domain-policy> 

In addition, I see "XML Error" in this secure_url file: https://beta.mybabytales.com/player/dewplayer/dewplayer-vol.swf?showtime=true&autostart=true&mp3=http://api.twilio.com/ 2010-04-01 / Accounts / ACd883111c969a8582d86869ee98ea326f / Recordings / RE03bc1a2935e00f7ef466a1848ac9d00b.mp3

Answer 2

I found the greatest success using facebook sharer.PHP script

https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://google.com

the only “get” I've come across is that if you constantly change the og: tags on your page, you need to use the object debugger at that url to “reset” the facebook cache on your page