et al, I posted the following to AQC, and, after sleeping on it, I thought I should post it here, also:
-------post to AQC----------- tele....CC: glennmcc.....reference your problem accessing your YehawMail and then doing a POP3 download on one of your own mail accounts: ... Well....it's worse than you thought...<g g g g> ..that's the BAD news.....and I haven't figured out what the GOOD news is, yet.....<g g g g> ... I just spent the past 3 1/2 hours checking into this. What I found out is as follows: 1. It does the same thing with 1.69, 1.71preview, and 1.71ue01, and it is NOT just a problem with checking YehawMail and then POP3-ing...what is actually happening is that you cannot "shell-out" at all, after visiting that YehawMail page. Not NO way, not EVER. And, it does it with all three of the latest Arachnes. I haven't tried it with earlier ones, and don't intend to try. 2. When I say that that YehawMail page does something to lock Arachne into its own space, I mean, you cannot ALT-E, ALT-H, ALT-X, ClearCache, F10-ClickMyComputer, or do any other action that will cause Arachne to try to "shell-out"...any of these type actions locks Arachne up tight. I DID find that I CAN CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot, but that does me no good, because I need to RESET anyway to reset my COMport and modem. 3. You can verify what I am saying by going to your MyYahoo page, ALT-E, exit-back-into-Arachne and everything works fine, so far. Now click the "CheckMail" link and get taken to the MyYahooMail page. Then click the "MyYahoo" link to return to your MyYahoo page. Then try to ALT-E, again... It'll lock your Arachne right up. 4. I said that it also does it with 1.69, which does NOT have the "https2http" spoof capability, nor the "IgnoreJS" capability, but, I also tried 1.71ue01 with those options removed from the ARACHNE.CFG file. It still can't be shelled-out. Everything I tried to do, to get into my cache and try to delete that MyYahooMail page could NOT be done. Flat, Final, Period. ... Since I ALWAYS run from RAMdisk, I was losing that page each time I had to reboot, so I can't say just what is in that page when it gets into the cache, that causes Arachne to lockup when you try to shell-out. I was able to F4 and look at the MyYahooMail page, while I was on it, and I could F2 to save it, those actions do not cause Arachne to try to shell-out. ... Maybe I will try to get time to set up one of my Arachne installs to have the cache on one of my HDDs, and then when I have to reboot, at least I'll still have that page in the cache....and...maybe it will still cause me problems whenever I fireup Arachne afresh.. ...It seems worth checking out, but I'm not gonna do it, right now...It's late(early) and I have some other things to do, and then need to get some sleep. (followup) followup....I DID try that "cache on HDD" and it did save the page after I had to reboot, but the page, viewed later thru F10, didn't cause any problems... ... ...also...I thought it might just be using the keys (i.e. ALT-H, etc) so I tried it one more time, only this time, I did "D" to get back to my DialUp page, then clicked the "Hangup Now" link, and it locked up, too...so...it's the whole Arachne environment that is getting affected, not just the keyboard drivers, or some such thing... --------end post to AQC--------------- I seem to sense something similar to Christian's reported problem. So, Christian, check your "Click on Drives (actually on YOUR COMPUTER)" and check when it locks up, if it did it during any "Arachne shell-out" operaton. Glenn....If you need a YahooMail account to check this against, I can send you my username and password. ....gregy -- This mail was sent by a user of Arachne - The Ultimate Internet Client