We’re trying to use the Facebook Authenticated Referrals feature on our website.
Right now it works fine when one user (Alice) uses a Feed Dialog to post to her wall and another user (Bob) clicks on Alice’s post. Bob sees an Auth Dialog before navigating to our website.
But our app doesn’t (currently) use Feed Dialogs; we just have Like buttons everywhere. I was hoping/expecting that when Alice clicks the Like button in an article on our site, and Bob clicks on Alice’s “Like” post, Bob would get an Auth Dialog.
Am I just misconfiguring my site/app somehow? Is it possible to get Authenticated Referrals from Likes at all?
In a Facebook bug, a FB engineer responded to say: “this is currently the design of authenticated referrals. It only happens with Open Graph app publishes.”
So, at least for now, no authenticated referrals are possible for Facebook Like links.