Thanks again, Greg.
Yes, your experiences with "zifdavis eweek servers" seem to be the
same as I get with Yahoo ... 1.66 is OK, but anything later isn't ...
Your idea about the ARACHNE.CFG file is a good one - I will e-mail
you a copy of my ARACHNE.CFG file to you a bit later (when I get
back to my other PC ;-). I should mention however, that it's not
heavily fiddled <g> ...
Incidentally, I have set up a mail account at "mail.yahoo.com.au" for
testing this stuff : username = "arachne_au", password = "browser" ...
See ya later,
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory J. Feig [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, 19 January 2001 23:40
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Yahoo cookies
>
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:12:23 +1100, Da Silva, Joe wrote:
>
> > Well, I have now had a chance to try it "your way", after first deleting
>
> ----------------snip--------------
>
> > "Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
> > Request header field is missing colon separator.
> > Y=v=1&n=95......."
>
> ---------------snip---------------
>
> > 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 ??
>
> Joe,
>
> I just got your post, and went back thru "your way" via www.yahoo.com
> with images both off and on, clicking on "Yahoo! Mail" and also on
> the "Check EMail" icon. This was after deleting Cookies in my .LST,
> and could not get Yahoo to reject any responses from my 1.69...
> Everything proceeded smoothly.
>
> -----------few minutes later------------
>
> I just had a thought and did it again, but this time deleted my
> COOKIES.LST file instead of just editing it to 0bytes. Same results.
> Everything went thru smoothly.
>
> I have found that the FIRST question I really NEED to ask is, "What
> am I doing to get the results that I am?" In this case, I can't
> see anything different from what you are doing. However, I am a
> fiddler...I fiddle with my Arachne Installs relentlessly. You sound
> like a fiddler, too. I wonder if there is anything either of us
> could have fiddled with in a .CFG file to either make 1.69 work, or
> to make it not work...???
>
> Now, I got that "your browser sent a message this server could not
> understand" error from the zifdavis eweek servers, all of them (and
> still do) with 1.69 but not with 1.66 (which I am now using to read
> those eweek pages, until 1.69 gets straightened out). I sent in
> a bug report, since several of the other list members confirmed the
> affect.
>
> I'm wondering if there IS anything we can do that will mess up the
> cooky reply by twiddling and fiddling in our .CFG files, etc.
>
> ......gregy
>
