Like button not passing URL parameters

Question

I'm making a site which has a list of videos. Next to each video in the list I want a like button. My like button code looks like this:

<div class="fb-like" data-send="true" data-layout="button_count" data-width="100" data-show-faces="false"></div>

And the URL of the page is

http://dev2-rs-www.doubledip.com/video-play/?vid=aj5pbnNlcnRlZC1mcm9tLXRleHQtaW4tYnVpbGQtZGVwbG95LWFwcGxpY2F0aW9uaWQtb24tZGVwbG95bWVudHIkCxINQWNjb3VudFJlY29yZBgBDAsSC1ZpZGVvUmVjb3JkGAkM

However, the link on my wall is http://dev2-rs-www.doubledip.com/video-play/ without the ?vid= parameter. I also tried adding the data-href attribute, but that didn't do anything. How can I fix this?

Gray · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-11 15:09:33Z

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Your problem lies with the misuse of the <link rel='canonical'> element. On the video page, it links to the page without the ?vid parameter, causing it to use that as the final value. Change it to the actual page and it should work fine.

edited Jul 11, 2012 at 15:09

answered Dec 7, 2011 at 4:47

Gray

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user1084826 Over a year ago

You were right. I didn't have the full link in my canonical link tag. That that seemed to fix the problem.

Ladessa Over a year ago

@echeese, pls see my question stackoverflow.com/questions/16059918/…

Sudhir Bastakoti · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-07 04:11:38Z

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Facebook like buttons doesnt use parameters in url. User this: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/ to check for info and errors

answered Dec 7, 2011 at 4:11

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user1084826 Over a year ago

Thanks, that was a useful tool.

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