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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:34:24+00:00

I am developing a desktop application that will interface with FB. FB insists that

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I am developing a desktop application that will interface with FB. FB insists that you provide a Site URL. Since this is a desktop application this doesn’t really make sense. I set the site url to ‘localhost’.

I just get the following error when I put ‘localhost’ in the url string

API Error Code: 191 API Error Description: The specified URL is not
owned by the application Error Message: redirect_uri isn’t an absolute
URI. Check RFC 3986.

This looks like a pretty common error but I don’t see any examples of how desktop applications should handle this site url requirement.

Can someone help me out?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Pays to read the documentation to the end 🙂

    Our OAuth 2.0 implementation does not include explicit desktop app
    support. However, if your desktop app can embed a web browser (most
    desktop frameworks such as .NET, AIR and Cocoa support embedding
    browsers), you can use the client-side flow with one modification: a
    specific redirect_uri. Rather than requiring desktop apps to host a
    web server and populate the Site URL in the Developer App, we provide
    a specific URL you can use with desktop apps:
    https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html.

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