Re: Recent Yahoo connection issue

Alan Humpherys <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:08:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.general,gmane.network.fire.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If it's any consolation, I believe that these updates to the servers 
were to solve some bugs in their server code. (Which were possibly 
exacerbated by the behavior of clients like Fire.)

For many accounts, as you logged in, the server would send out streams 
of thousands of identical packets to the client (for about 6 minutes)  
Either notifying the client that it has mail waiting, or just sending 
you the yahoo cookies hundreds of times a minute.

So if the update solves that problem, then it will all be worth it!

(Maybe their intentions were not entirely diabolical)

Alan
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Alan Humpherys
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On Jan 9, 2004, at 9:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Those yahoo rat bastards...
>
>> Fellow Fire Users!
>>
>> As you have noticed, Fire is currently unable to connect to Yahoo.
>>
>> On January 8, 2004, Yahoo made some unannounced additional changes to
>> their Yahoo! Messenger servers and Fire is not able to connect to them
>> at this time.  (You get a dialog box asking if you are sure you 
>> entered
>> the correct username and password.)
>>
>> I am working with the other members of the Open Source community who
>> develop Yahoo! Messenger clients to resolve this issue, please be
>> assured that resolving this issue is a top priority for all of us, and
>> we are working to solve it as quickly as possible.
>>
>> Thank you for your patience as we work to get this resolved.
>>
>> Alan Humpherys
>> - The Fire Development Team
>>
>>
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