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by the fact that my current cookie is badly out-of-date.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
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