Why new fb api 2.4 returns null email on MVC 5 with Identity and oauth 2?

Taken from a Katana Thread I devised the following:

Change the FacebookAuthenticationOptions to include BackchannelHttpHandler and UserInformationEndpoint as seen below. Make sure to include the names of the fields you want and need for your implementation.

var facebookOptions = new FacebookAuthenticationOptions()
{
    AppId = "*",
    AppSecret = "*",
    BackchannelHttpHandler = new FacebookBackChannelHandler(),
    UserInformationEndpoint = "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.4/me?fields=id,name,email,first_name,last_name"
}

Then create a custom FacebookBackChannelHandler that will intercept the requests to Facebook and fix the malformed url as needed.

UPDATE: The FacebookBackChannelHandler is updated based on a 27 Mar 2017 update to the FB api.

public class FacebookBackChannelHandler : HttpClientHandler
{
    protected override async System.Threading.Tasks.Task<HttpResponseMessage> SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        if (!request.RequestUri.AbsolutePath.Contains("/oauth"))
        {
            request.RequestUri = new Uri(request.RequestUri.AbsoluteUri.Replace("?access_token", "&access_token"));
        }

        var result = await base.SendAsync(request, cancellationToken);
        if (!request.RequestUri.AbsolutePath.Contains("/oauth"))
        {
            return result;
        }

        var content = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        var facebookOauthResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<FacebookOauthResponse>(content);

        var outgoingQueryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
        outgoingQueryString.Add("access_token", facebookOauthResponse.access_token);
        outgoingQueryString.Add("expires_in", facebookOauthResponse.expires_in + string.Empty);
        outgoingQueryString.Add("token_type", facebookOauthResponse.token_type);
        var postdata = outgoingQueryString.ToString();

        var modifiedResult = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK)
        {
            Content = new StringContent(postdata)
        };

        return modifiedResult;
    }
}

public class FacebookOauthResponse
{
    public string access_token { get; set; }
    public string token_type { get; set; }
    public int expires_in { get; set; }
}

One useful addition would be to check for the version 3.0.1 of the library and throw an exception if and when it changes. That way you’ll know if someone upgrades or updates the NuGet package after a fix for this problem has been released.

(Updated to build, work in C# 5 without new nameof feature)