HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 13:21:42 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net> wrote:
> The *only* reason Facebook should be contacting you this way is if you
> have an app set to pull data from there.

  Doesn't need to be an app.  A simple web link to a home IP address,
or name that resolves to same, will do it.  Facebook will try to
retrieve the page title and content for thumbnail/preview purposes.

https://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php

-- Ben


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