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My website has suddenly started reporting this error when ever anyone logs in with Facebook:

HTTP Status 500 - Authorization is required for the operation, but the API binding was created without authorization.

type Exception report

message Authorization is required for the operation, but the API binding was created without authorization.

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception org.springframework.social.MissingAuthorizationException: Authorization is required for the operation, but the API binding was created without authorization.

I have not changed anything relating to Facebook logging in recently, so why might my website be suddenly giving this error?

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  • This question is very similar to this one, which I found while trying to find the answer to my identical problem. Eureka! Except that question had been closed as being a supposed duplicate of another and the answer to that supposed duplicate were no help whatsoever (as is often the case). So, I have spent a lot more time finding out the answer myself and here is the same question together with what I have found out so far, which may be of help to the next person (surely the whole point of SO). Commented Apr 6, 2017 at 11:33

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It seems that version 2.2 of Facebook's Graph API (which is used for this kind of thing) ceased to be available on 25/3/17: See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/changelog. Hence, the sudden change in behaviour in spite of there being no change to my website.

My website uses v1.1.0 of the spring-social-facebook library. I suspect this is the problem and that I ought to be using v2.0.3: http://projects.spring.io/spring-social-facebook/. However, I don't have the skills to take this any further.

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Thanks Matthew. I changed spring-social-facebook from version 1.1.1.RELEASE to version 2.0.3.RELEASE, and problem solved.

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