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A significant update was pushed back to github. Documentation has been updated here.

Fixes

• fixed issue handling extended permissions redirect
• fixed uid not returning correct value
• fixed stored session not correctly being restored
• fixed potential for infinite loop in MKFacebookRequestQueue

Changes

• MKFacebook uid method now returns NSString
• MKFacebookRequest parameters can now accept a NSArray containing strings in place of a comma separated string for methods that require a list
• MKFacebookRequest default connection timeout changed to 30 seconds
• MKFacebookRequestQueue modified to use new MKFacebookRequestDelegate methods
• Removed custom selectors from MKFacebookRequestQueue

Updates, documentation, and demos will still be hosted here at pointlesscrap.net but source is now available at GitHub.

http://github.com/mikekinney/MKAbeFook

What started out as a simple plan to support the improved desktop authorization for Facebook Connect - Authorization and Authentication for Desktop Applications - has turned out to be a significant overhaul of just about everything.

The old login process looked something like this:

• try to authenticate using existing session or send a request to obtain an auth token
• handle response for auth token
• generate URL to display login window if a valid auth token was received
• display login window
• wait for user to do something (i.e. login then close the login window)
• when the login window is closed send a request for an auth session
• handle response for auth session, if it's good it's safe to assume the user login was successful, store session info, etc... - otherwise clean up and get ready to do it all again
• notify application that a user logged in

What's fixed:
- persistent sessions should now work correctly in 10.6
- debug builds should really log to the console this time
- fetchFacebookData: should no longer always return nil in 10.6

This is a minor update to fix a few compile warnings in 10.6.

Changes:
- grantExtendedPermissionForSheet: now uses a URL with &popup
- login window will check app permission for offline_access before directing user to grant offline access page
- generateSigForParameters will raise an exception if it finds nil sessionSecret or sessionKey, a message will be displayed about setting application type to desktop
- release builds will no longer log to console

The next release is planned for the end of September and will be a significant update.