Problem with 4.1 and JA S3 component plugin

The way we include the Facebook Javascript API was updated in JFBConnect 4.1 to be inline with Facebook's current recommendations. The new format is uses a schemeless approach (no http or https). If you you have a optimizer or minification type extension running on your site that tries to always include the domain name, and it's not properly working with schemeless links, you'd get this error.

You can fix in JFBConnect by editing the /plugins/system/jfbcsystem/jfbcsystem.php file and searching forAnd adding the https in front of that. However, that will always load the SSL version, which is slower than using the http version. If your site doesn't use SSL, you can just use http://

We'd definitely recommend you contact your template provider, or whichever extension developer is incorrectly working with schemeless links, and have them fix their extension.

Thanks,
Alex

The schemeless link is simply put into the HTML. While it's put there using PHP, like everything else that's rendered on the page, something else is then coming along and seeing the //connect.facebook.net, thinking that it's a relative link (not a schemeless link) and adding your domain to it. That's improper behavior. It could either be your SEF extension (if it's not Joomla's core SEF), your template, or some other optimization extension.

If you could try undoing the change above and switching templates or turning off SEF temporarily to see if it's modified, that will help narrow down what extension is mis-behaving.

Alex