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Cognito Hosted UI User Pool – Google not showing

Hi everyone,

I’m implementing Cognito User Pools for an app and currently adding social providers (Google, Facebook, etc).

The setup process seems pretty straight forward, however the social options did not appear on my hosted ui.

It turned out that I’d missed the last step in the documentation:
– Go to “App Client Settings” (left hand menu under App integration)
– Look for “Enabled Identity Providers” and check any that you want to show

I found this a little unintuitive as I’d expected it to show once it was enabled in the “Identity Providers” section. I probably just need to learn to read ALL of the docs!

The full documentation is available here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/cognito-user-pools-social-idp.html

And the bulk of the configuration is performed here:

Request Denied – react-geocode

Hi everyone,

I’m currently testing react-geocode but hit a “request denied” error after providing my API key.

Error: Server returned status code REQUEST_DENIED

The solution was pretty simple thankfully – enable the Geocoding API for your project: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/get-api-key

In my case I was re-using a Google maps key from another project where I’d enabled all of the map apis but not the GeoCoding one.

Fetch As Google Error – ReactJs

Hi everyone,

I ran into the following error while using “fetch as Google” and none of my pages were being indexed correctly:

Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function

It took a while to find a solution but after some Googling I found that GoogleBot currently uses Chrome v41. You can download the mini installer of Chromium v41 which will run in parallel with your existing Chrome version: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Win%2F310958%2Fmini_installer.exe?generation=1420864313749000&alt=media

After downloading Chromium you can just debug normally via the console. In my case, Chrome v41 didn’t like the following command:

document.head.append(script);

If you’re using a front-end framework like ReactJS, AngularJS or Vue you’ll often just need to add babel polyfill:

npm install babel-core --save-dev

Then add this as the first line in your entry point e.g. index.js:
import 'babel-core/polyfill';

It’s important that the polyfill import is added as the first line otherwise anything added before it won’t work.

If you’re getting an error about Headers, you may also need to install the following:
npm install whatwg-fetch --save

Add then add this import just below your babel polyfill:
import 'whatwg-fetch'

Thanks to tomekrudzki on Reddit for the link to Chromium v41: Chrome 41 the key to successful website rendering

Unable to Find GoogleOAuth2AuthenticationOptions – MVC4/5

Hey everyone,

I was following the guide provided via the startup.auth.cs link on how to add Google authentication to your app. The problem I hit was that the example types used weren’t available, specifically GoogleOAuth2AuthenticationOptions.

Thankfully the fix fix for this was pretty easy, simply update OWIN via NuGet:

– Right click on your project
– Go to Manage NuGet Packages
– Click on the updates drop down
– Search for OWIN
– Update all of the relevant options

Thanks to this Stackoverflow post for the solution: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23606431/522859

Discussions Gone – Google Search

It looks like Google has removed the discussions search filter for some browsers (currently using Chrome Version 32.0.1700.76 m).

Hoping this is a bug and not another part of the “simplicity” trend they’re on at the moment.

Solution #1: Append &tbm paramter to url
A temporary fix is to add “&tbm=dsc” to the end of the search url. SilentEcho has added this script to automate it if you’re going to be using it a fair bit: http://userscripts.org/scripts/reviews/293082

Solution #2: Change Use Agent String
You can also use a user agent string of a browser that it still works for (I’ve heard Opera but haven’t verified).

Solution #3: Sign Out of Google Account
This didn’t work for me, however quite a few people are saying it does the job for them.

Thanks to this thread for the links/info: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/websearch/Psb6OmlLJTg/NoW2hr-qytcJ

link.smartscreen.live.com – Google Analytics Referral

Well, today I was looking through the Google Analytics overview of the WhatIBroke.com and I noticed a referral I hadn’t seen before from link.smartscreen.live.com.

I did a bit of Googling and it turns out that this is actually something Microsoft uses within IE and MSN. Apparently, whenever someone clicks on a link in msn the service will check the link against a list of unsafe sites and warn the user if anything is amiss.

It just so happens that I’d sent a link to the blog to a friend on msn – so I guess everything checks out. Here’s a bit of a blurb from the FAQ on Microsoft’s Site:

SmartScreen Filter is a feature in Internet Explorer that helps detect phishing websites. SmartScreen Filter can also help protect you from downloading or installing malware (malicious software).

SmartScreen Filter helps to protect you in three ways:

As you browse the web, it analyses webpages and determines if they have any characteristics that might be suspicious. If it finds suspicious webpages, SmartScreen will display a message giving you an opportunity to provide feedback and advising you to proceed with caution.

SmartScreen Filter checks the sites you visit against a dynamic list of reported phishing sites and malicious software sites. If it finds a match, SmartScreen Filter will show you a warning notifying you that the site has been blocked for your safety.

SmartScreen Filter checks files that you download from the web against a list of reported malicious software sites and programs known to be unsafe. If it finds a match, SmartScreen Filter will warn you that the download has been blocked for your safety. SmartScreen Filter also checks the files that you download against a list of files that are well known and downloaded by many Internet Explorer users. If the file that you’re downloading isn’t on that list, SmartScreen Filter will warn you.

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got for now – Good Luck!