Tag: facebook

The reason [Source]

It has been a bit hard to reach facebook lately. For some ISP like Viettel and FPT, a DNS change is all it takes to resolve facebook’s IP and restore access to the site. For some other, like EVN and VNPT, here’s what you got

Changing DNS won’t work, which means the rats must have bitten something else. You are forced to use slower methods to overcome this, which could heavily impact your ability to play happy farm 🙁

That’s until I read that facebook still work with SSL (e.g when you replaces http in the address with https you are able to login), but it reverts to http the next time you click a link and you’ll have to do it again. This is especially annoying with games, which uses a lot of redirects to show their ads and stuff (damn, they are greedy).

And so I made something to do the hard work for me, so that I won’t miss the daily login bonuses :p. It’s utterly simple and a bit hard to use  but it does the job.

The code

Make a form that looks like this

Write these to the form’s code

public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Executes when a request is made, it will fix the protocol or anything in
        /// the address if the first check box is checked
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void webBrowser1_Navigating(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs e)
        {
            string Address = e.Url.ToString();
            // Facebook uses some complicated redirection method so we'lll have to ignore this
            if (Address.Contains("redirectiframe.html"))
                return;
            // If it's not from facebook or facebook's cache, just ignore it
            if (!Address.Contains("facebook") && !Address.Contains("fbcdn"))
                e.Cancel = true;
            else
                if (checkBox1.Checked && Address.Contains(textBox1.Text))
                {
                    e.Cancel = true;
                    webBrowser1.Navigate(Address.Replace(textBox1.Text, textBox2.Text));
                }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Load facebook on start
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            webBrowser1.Navigate("http://www.facebook.com");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Fixes link after the document is loaded, may break some pages
        /// and creates an endless loop on login so it's not enabled by default
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void webBrowser1_Navigated(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (checkBox2.Checked)
                webBrowser1.DocumentText = webBrowser1.DocumentText.Replace(textBox3.Text, textBox4.Text);
            toolStripTextBox1.Text = webBrowser1.Url.ToString();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The go button
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void toolStripButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            webBrowser1.Navigate(toolStripTextBox1.Text);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Show/hide options
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void toolStripButton2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            groupBox1.Visible = !groupBox1.Visible;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Update load progress
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender"></param>
        /// <param name="e"></param>
        private void webBrowser1_ProgressChanged(object sender, WebBrowserProgressChangedEventArgs e)
        {
            toolStripProgressBar1.Maximum = (int)e.MaximumProgress;
            toolStripProgressBar1.Value = (int)e.CurrentProgress;
        }
    }

Usage

Open options, check the first check box and you’ll be able to login, open applications and view photos. Should something breaks, try uncheck the check box and press Go to reload the page.

Choose no when IE asks you this, as images are loaded with http

The second check box corrects the links and images on the page to https, only use this when images are not loading

Alternatively, you con use this to access facebook with its ip address. Try navigate to 69.63.184.143 and have it replace http://www.63.184.143 with https://69.63.184.143 (facebook removes the leftmost part before the first . and replaces it with www when you login)

Here’s the executable