Facebook Iframe App with multiple pages in Safari Session Variables not persisting

Question

I have a facebook Iframe application with multiple PHP pages in it.

I have some links that point relatively to the files inside my \"iframe folder\".

Having

Answer 1

Safari accepts cookies only from the page the user navigates to. The easiest and most effective way to fix this is to redirect the request from landing page of your canvas app to a different page on your domain using top.location.href and redirect the user back to the canvas app from that page.

For example, if abc.php is your landing page and the canvas URL is facebook.com/abc. First redirect the request from abc.php to a different page like xyz.php then redirect again from xyz.php to facebook.com/abc. Don't forget to start the session in xyz.php.

This is the simple fix...