New Timeline Like Button Behavior

Question

On the new style Page Tabs, the Like button no longer re-freshes the page. This breaks the existing workflow for \"Like-gates\", where the signed request is checked on the serve

Answer 1

it's a bug that the page is not refreshing after being liked. Here's the bug reported:

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/228778937218386?browse=search_4f500194bc1bd0293819428

However, I managed to do a workaround to detect if the page is still not using timeline by looking for an album called "Cover Photos" on the album list of that page. Here's a sample:

http://graph.facebook.com/-page_id-/albums?fields=name

You don't need a token unless the page isn't published yet.

The problem with this approach is that some pages still don't have cover picture yet, but it's the minority.