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Aweber secure integration in FB fan page

by NickPineault
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Dear warriors,

Here's the complicated situation I'm trying to solve:
  • I'm using Fan Page Engine as my fan gate provider
  • I'm using the Aweber HTML code in that fan gate to build my list
  • When customers register on my fan gate and have the "secure connection" (which makes every link https) option "ON", Aweber reacts by forcing the person to confirm their opt-in
  • People usually don't go through the extra effort to confirm, so I lose 70% of my potential opt-ins right now... which gives me a headache.

What Fan Page Engine told me:

The fan gate they host for me is either http or https depending on the security options of the Facebook users. They say it's Aweber's fault

What Aweber told me:

Submissions through a webform that come from a secure connection will
always require a confirmation email to be sent. The server does not support secure connections.
What you can do is create an application using our API. The API does use a secure connection. If you would like more information on this you can visit our API site at ...

What I'm thinking...

I need to find someone who will give me a solution to this problem. The best for me would be to find a way to use the API they're talking about, and I have no idea about how to do this. No luck finding answers on Google either.


Thanks for your support, this is killing me right now!


Nick
#aweber #fan #integration #page #secure
  • Profile picture of the author sharpmedia
    Can you post the link to their API that you're talking about?

    The FB page design changed, some apps no longer work. Just the other day I somewhat failed trying to integrate a simple Wofoo form.
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    • Profile picture of the author NickPineault
      Originally Posted by sharpmedia View Post

      Can you post the link to their API that you're talking about?

      The FB page design changed, some apps no longer work. Just the other day I somewhat failed trying to integrate a simple Wofoo form.
      Its labs (dot) aweber (dot) com
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      • Profile picture of the author NickPineault
        Update: here's the answer I got from Aweber

        There may be a way to set that up though I cannot confirm.


        To verify if the existing service you are wanting to set up and API integration with, you will need to reach out the the third party these services are with and verify that their API is compatible with ours.


        Be advised, that if you are not familiar with development such as PHP, Ruby Gem, or Python Egg, I recommend to reach out to a third party developer to have an API integration written for you.
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        • Profile picture of the author Thumoney
          NickPineault, have you found a way to use an aweber form on secure facebook fanpages?

          To all: How would you do that? I keep getting the message on facebook, that the aweber app is non-secure!
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          • Profile picture of the author FirstSocialApps
            Nick, I actually did just about all of the coding for Fanpage Engine (every app) before I left working with David and started First Social (which by the way has built in Aweber support and no monthly fee) .

            I think that Chase might have mentioned this to me when I was helping him with support. Are you using the Page Builder app or one of the apps? If you using the page builder app with the HTML widget you might run into some trouble. If you have a secure hosting yourself you could always use the IFRAME widget.
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            • Profile picture of the author NickPineault
              Fanpage engine didn't work after multiple tries.

              I got this fixed by hiring a coder.

              Here's the instructions he sent me after everything was setup:

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              Main concept.
              We have Facebook aplication named „iFrame Apps" which allows following:
              - Instaling to TABs as a canvas
              - Displaying picture or text for NON likers
              - Displaying external page in iFrame for likers (it allows to display pages from regular http servers, ones without „s"
              Trick of the solution is that external page (page with aweber form) is loaded in iFrame from external location (which is not SSL), and when user enters data and clicks submit - aweber sees the post request as it has been made from your external server, not FB - so there is no SSL problem.
              After submitting the form, Aweber returns the „Thank you" page, which is now shown inside Facebook and now has to be adjusted by design to fit nicely.


              Setting up the iFrame APP
              „iFrame Apps" is installed to fan page. Application can be found here:
              https:// apps.facebook.com/iframe-apps/
              User who is admin of fan page has to install application to his profile.

              When you install application and go to it you click on „set up tab"
              First you select a fan page to which you want to install tab (1).
              Then you click on „Display method" (2) and select URL and enter iFrame url to the place Aweber html file with form is stored. (3)


              Then click „Submit" to save



              Adding a non likers (Fan gate part)
              After step described before, you go to „Fan Gate" tab.
              First you select Fan page to which you have installed app int he step before (1).
              Then you check „Enable fan gate". Then you either select „picture" or „message (Text or HTML) and enter data which will be shown to NON likers.


              After uploading picture (or adding text) (2) click on submit (3) to save.

              Changing picture & title on „iFrame Apps" application TAB
              Changing app details is same as every tab item on fan page start page.


              You can change text&picture for tab item.

              Quick overview of steps needed to add new Fan subpage with Aweber form
              - Creating a Aweber form using their wizard.
              - Creating a landing page suited to FB iframe which is used with Aweber form
              - Creating external html file with Aweber form, suited to fit into FB iFrame and storing it somewhere on your server
              - Installing application to FB page
              - Seting up NON likers message
              - Pointing iFrame for Likers to show to url from step 3
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