Facebook authentication is incredibly slow

Question

Hey Guys,

we are trying to use azure websites as an backend for our app. The app is using Facebook OAuth for user authentication.

We are using the official PHP-SDK provided by facebook

Here is our code:

$facebook = new Facebook($config);

$facebook->setAccessToken($params["fbtoken"]);
			
$fbUser = $facebook->api("/me");

logMsg("Handle registration");
$facebook->setAccessToken($params["fbtoken"]);
$fbUser = $facebook->api("/me");

$sql="SELECT * FROM bq_users WHERE fb_id='".mysql_real_escape_string($fbUser["id"])."'";
logMsg($sql);
...

When we run the script on our local maschines or on our webserver, the "/me"-requests takes about 200ms.

Log:

{"time":1385555609.7717,"offset":0.0001,"msg":"Handle registration"}
{"time":1385555610.2586,"offset":0.4869,"msg":"SELECT * FROM X WHERE fb_id='XXX'"}

On Azure we experience way more than 3 seconds. 

Log:

{"time":1385555673.3911,"offset":0.0001,"msg":"Handle registration"}
{"time":1385555676.8602,"offset":3.4691,"msg":"SELECT * FROM bq_users WHERE fb_id='XX'"}

Any ideas how to fix that

Answer 1

I have no idea, why this takes so long, but we solved the issue by directly using the rest api without the sdk:

$fbUser=json_decode(file_get_contents("https://graph.facebook.com/me?type=post&access_token=".$params["fbtoken"]),true);

Answer 2

Cool. Thanks for the sharing.