Facebooker talk - Jan 2009 - No ''secret'' returned by facebook.auth.getSession

(also posted at http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?id=26779)

Hi,

Caveat:- New to facebook apps so it''s possible that I''ve made
some
silly/obvious (except to me) mistakes...

Downloaded facebooker (ruby gem) and followed instructions to get write 
a simple desktop app.

I manage to authorize the app as my facebook user (i.e. 
facebook.auth.createToken worked and 
login.php?api_key=xxx&v=1.0&auth_token=xxx also worked).

Now when the desktop app continues I try a facebook.auth.getSession and 
I get back session_key, uid and expires. But I don''t get back a secret 
which is what I''m supposed to sign future requests.

In theory getSession is supposed to be done with https - but right now 
facebooker doesn''t support that. Is that the cause of my troubles or is
there something else I should try?

If the facebook.auth.getSession includes a generate_session_secret=true 
then I do get back a secret; but subsequent authentication fails 
(signature invalid).

Any help is appreciated,
- Jacob