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Social Sharing fails silently if JSONP request fails

I attempted to share a link to a question on my Askbot hosted site on Facebook. I clicked on the Facebook icon, but nothing happened. I clicked on it a few times, and nothing continued to happen:

Social sharing buttons.

I checked my web inspector, and I noticed that the JSONP request was getting a 503 response:

Screen shot of web inspector indicating that the request to json-tinyurl.appspot.com was returning a 503.

(right-click and select "Open Image in New Tab" to view full-size)

There should probably be some kind of feedback when these requests fail.

Social Sharing fails silently if JSONP request fails

I attempted to share a link to a question on my Askbot hosted site on Facebook. I clicked on the Facebook icon, but nothing happened. I clicked on it a few times, and nothing continued to happen:happen.

Social sharing buttons.

I checked my web inspector, and I noticed that the JSONP request was getting a 503 response:

Screen shot of web inspector indicating that the request to json-tinyurl.appspot.com was returning a 503.

(right-click and select "Open Image in New Tab" to view full-size)

There should probably be some kind of feedback when these requests fail.

Social Sharing fails silently if JSONP XHR request fails

I attempted to share a link to a question on my Askbot hosted site on Facebook. I clicked on the Facebook icon, but nothing happened. I clicked on it a few times, and nothing continued to happen.

Social sharing buttons.

I checked my web inspector, and I noticed that the JSONP request was getting a 503 response:

Screen shot of web inspector indicating that the request to json-tinyurl.appspot.com was returning a 503.

(right-click and select "Open Image in New Tab" to view full-size)

There should probably be some kind of feedback when these requests fail.