Thanks for that, Greg!
Well, I have now had a chance to try it "your way", after first deleting
my cookies (normally, I either go to Yahoo, then click on the Mail
link and log-in, or else I go straight to the Mail URL and log-in there
... without using the MyYahoo page). Anyway ... same result ... !
With Arachne 1.69 I get the following message :
"Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Request header field is missing colon separator.
Y=v=1&n=95......."
I even went through the same process with Arachne 1.66 (which
works OK), then copied the COOKIES.LST file to the Arachne
1.69 directory. Still the same problem. (Incidentally, when I used
Arachne 1.66 "your way", I too got that "login has expired" stuff,
even though I didn't have an out-of-date cookie!).
So, it appears that different people get different results with this
Yahoo cookie stuff ... from memory :
1. Glenn and Michael had problems with 1.66 but 1.69 was OK.
2. You have no problem with either 1.66 or 1.69.
3. I have no problem with 1.66 but can't get 1.69 to work.
So - does this Yahoo cookie problem depend on the PC, the
PC configuration, the ISP, the country, or perhaps the relative
humidity, or even the height above sea-level ... ideas anyone ??
Regards to all,
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory J. Feig [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2001 5:04
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Yahoo cookies
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 19:14:53 +1100, Da Silva, Joe wrote:
>
> > Ok ... this is something that has been bothering/puzzling me :
>
> > V1.67-V1.69 of Arachne is supposed to work better with Yahoo's
> > cookies than previous versions (eg V.166) - so why is it that I
> > cannot get V1.69 to work with Yahoo's mail cookies, yet V1.66
> > seems OK??? (Is it just me, or do others find this???)
>
> > Regards to all,
>
> Joe,
>
> Other people have reported this problem, including Michael P., but
> I have never had problems with Yahoo Cookies since 1.50b.
>
>
> My box is:
>
> Cyrix 486dlc 40Mhz, dual 2.5Gb HDs, External Auto-detect Phoebe 56K
> modem, working on a 33.6K dialup line (approximately 5 miles to my
> ISP), phone lines and my inhouse lines are somewhat noisy, so I use
> the 33.6K lines rather than the 56K lines available.
>
> I run my Arachne Installs (I have 2-3 of them installed at any one
> time - currently have 1.69 with 1.66 as a backup) from a RAMDisk
> with my Cookies, History and Hotlists down on a HD partition
> subdirectory.
>
> I POP3 my mail from Yahoo to my home box, rather than working with
> them on the Yahoo Server, so I rarely go to my MailBox while I am
> at MyYahoo.Com page, but I just went thru that after I read your
> post, to see if anything had changed. Nothing had.
>
> I still have no trouble. I launch - my.yahoo.com and I am taken
> straight to my MyYahoo page, with "Welcome <MyUserName)" and it is
> MY personal MyYahoo Page. I never SIGNOUT so I always have a Yahoo
> cooky, unless I happen to have deleted my COOKIES.LST, then I must
> SIGNIN.
>
> Once I am on my MyYahoo page, I click on Check Mail, and usually I
> am required to "Verify Your Password" before Yahoo will let me into
> my Mail. Once I have entered my password and clicked "SUBMIT" it
> takes me to my MyYahooMail page. Occasionally it will tell me that
> my "login" has expired and I need to "RELOGIN" and returns me to
> the "Verify Password" page. When I reenter my password and click
> "SUBMIT" it will then sometimes send me to the "LOGIN" page where
> I must enter both my "USERNAME" and my "PASSWORD", then I am taken
> right to my MyYahooMail page. This latter round-about way is caused
> by the fact that my current cookie is badly out-of-date. If I
> return to MyYahoo approximately once per day, this does not happen.
>
> Hope this gives you some insight into how a "successful" visit to
> a MyYahooMail page goes..
>
> .....gregy
>
>
> -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
