FB share: escape codes in URL, so page is not found

This was working before, but now doesn't (don't recall changing anything). I have turned on the ability to share a joomla article with FB. However, rather than sharing the article (for example this one: www.wnymba.org/index.php?option=com_cont...&catid=70&Itemid=451 it shares the URL with the escape codes rather than "?", ";", "&", etc. It tries to share this:and thus gives a blank page (actually a "not found" page).

OK, that didn't work since even with the code tags, the escape codes get converted to the http equivalents. The point being is the escape codes get resovled when they are shown i a browser, but not when you are putting them into the address bar of a browser (or when JFBConnect tries to share the link).


To see what is happening, see the attached screenshot of what it trying to do.

Bottom line, I can't share articles onto facebook any more.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for getting back to me.

We do not have any SEO or SEF extensions or anything to improve our rankings (people find us through facebook, hence our interest in JFBConnect!).

I don't recall making any major changes to the website. I have updated Joomla from 3.4 to 3.4.1, but I can't recall if that is correlated to when this started happening.

Currently, to get around this problem I just post onto facebook with the link to the website post (though that defeats one of the purposes/features of JFBconnect) since I still want to drive traffic to the website which has richer content than facebook. And today, I noticed this odd behavior:

I wanted to post a link to this article:

wnymba.org/index.php?option=com_content&...d=70:news&Itemid=451

And when I did (basically typed the name of the article and pasted in the link), I got the same "not found" error on facebook (this is completely without JFBconnect).

When I tried again with this slightly different URL:

wnymba.org/index.php?option=com_content&...&catid=70&Itemid=451

(in other words removing ":news") it posted (although it did not provide a little box with a "preview") like other posts. So I am guessing this maybe some change at Facebook?

The facebook page is facebook.com/wnymba

Yes, it is working here again, too. There must have been some API change over at facebook that has since been reversed.

Note, I use Share rather than Like because I want it shared to the club homepage, not my personal home page. Share allows me to select sharing it to a page I manage.

Unfortunately, the behavior is happening again.

Article I want to promote: wnymba.org/index.php?option=com_content&...d=70:news&Itemid=451

What I see:

Thank you for the quick response. Yes it is working again.

This is a new website (I did the re-do this past winter) so old cruft should be gone, so I am surprised that it is getting errors. Yes, I have a lot of modules installed in this website, but it is a fresh install of joomla 3.x with updates since this past winter applied.