Re: pr57 failing with Abnormal Yahoo Mail behavior

"David M. Carney" <carney1979-/[email protected]> Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:21:45 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.yosucker.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
pr57 is working just fine here. Installed it in my home folder (I'm the
only user to use it).

David


On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:51:24 -0700
"Daniel Rich" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to get YoSucker up and running with the new Yahoo mail
> system and am getting the error:
> YoSucker: Abnormal Yahoo Mail behavior (02)! Exiting - please retry...
> (as a few others have reported).
> 
> I've been doing some debugging, and it looks like something has
> changed with how Yahoo encodes the passwords in the URL.  For example,
> I see YoSucker trying the URL:
> http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.tries=&.src=ym&.last=&promo=&.intl=us&.bypass=&.partner=&.u=8ueas8d0d3p48&.v=0&.challenge=hGryphkteFL9Bh_wofVwdeH7dnSu&.emailCode=&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y&.done=&login=wwwdrich&passwd=xxxxx&.persistent=&.save=1&.hash=1&.js=1&.md5=1
> (I removed the password from the above)
> Yet if I try that URL directly I get an Invalid Password error from
> Yahoo.
> 
> I checked the password encoding in my config file, it hasn't changed
> with the new version.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas for a fix?
> 
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