Closed Bug 28545 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Cannot log in to yahoo.com mail

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

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VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 27687

People

(Reporter: bmh_ca, Assigned: warrensomebody)

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Details

(Keywords: top100)

It would appear as though Mozilla (built ~16 Feb) prevents me from logging into mail.yahoo.com. I can log in fine with Netscape 4.7, but Mozilla and Yahoo seem to disagree. I enter my password and it simply returns to the password page (not the login page; it knows my username but will not accept my password.) This could be a cookie problem. In general, if you log into the "login" page (where you specify username/password) it brings you right to your mailbox. However, in Mozilla, it brought me not to my mail but to my password-verification screen which you get when it remembers you (ala cookie) but requires confirmation that you are indeed you and thus you must enter your password.
Are you using standard or secure mode? If it's secure mode, this is likely a duplicate of bug 26336: No warnings on https: form submits. Does it work in standard mode? Does it give you an error message when it redisplays the login page (like "Invalid password")?
Assignee: waterson → karnaze
Component: All → Form Submission
Product: Architecture → Browser
QA Contact: shaver → ckritzer
Version: 5.0 → other
Severity: minor → major
Keywords: top100
I tried this with Linux build 2000.02.19.09, and it worked fine. Entering username and password got me to the mailbox display. I restarted and logged in again, this time clicking the "Save username and password" checkbox, and after restart got straight to the mailbox display. Try deleting your Yahoo cookies (Tasks | Autofill | Display Cookies).
Using build 2000.02.19.09, and I've wiped the cookies, and tried logging in again; there is no security so that doesn't seem to be an issue (well, not an issue with the problem herein described). Consistently I get the "Please verify your Yahoo Password" page. Wiping the cookies, using a different user name (creating a new one), saving the password, not saving the password, none of it seems to lead to my mailbox. I'm behind a masquerader, but I don't see how that would affect it, but if you did get it working, I am somewhat suspicious.
Reassigning to SteveM
Behind a masquerader? I tried accessing yahoo through anonymizer.com, and that didn't work, but neither did it on NS 4.7. What are you using?
We're using ipmasqadm 0.4.2 with Linux kernel 2.2.5-15. (Red Hat 6.0). The odd thing is that Netscape 4.7 works fine when attempting to log in to read mail. Notably, however, is that Roff's Licq (0.75) will not make direct connections, and however unlikely that these things are unrelated, the possibility exists that such knowledge is pertinent. I extracted some of the HTTP headers (ala ethereal): And yes, you can extract my yahoo password out of it (if you know Harry Turtledove's work, you'll laugh) -- BEGIN (What I sent) POST /config/login_verify2?3htoomgmud88p HTTP/1.0 Host: login.yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; N; Linux 2.2.13 i686; en-US) Accept: */* Accept-Language: en Referer: http://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?b1qn9u7mvb7kh cookie: B=6aonosgr84h4k; Y=v=1&n=8bts1uejfjgmg&l=1c7_20/o&p=m2e2nsic110009&r=59&lg=us&intl=us&np=1; T=z=ac0r4AaiJs4Ay/iaFmQtrrVNjEGMTE0MTcyMDU3&a=AAE&sk=DAAWkNIbLp3YAv&d=c2wBTVRZQk5qWXpOa$ Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 246 .tries=1&.done=http%253a%2F%2Ff16.mail.yahoo.com%2Fpy%2FymTop.py%253fy%3D1%2526.rand%3D$ (Note -- reply is below in the stream:) HTTP/1.0 302 Found Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:57:55 GMT Location: http://f16.mail.yahoo.com/py/ymTop.py?y=1&.rand=77ge9efv9co38 Cache-Control: private Pragma: no-cache Expires: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 22:00:00 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: Y=v=1&n=8bts1uejfjgmg&l=1c7_20/o&p=m2e2nsic110009&r=59&lg=us&intl=us&np=1; path=/; domain=.yahoo.com Set-Cookie: T=z=ko0r4AkuJs4ALB0LPEnX46VNjEGMTE0MTcyMDU3&a=AAE&sk=DAAzKeOsLNz7Ff&d=c2wBTVRZQk5qWXpOa$ path=/; domain=.yahoo.com -- END -- BEGIN (Welcome to Yahoo Mail: Verify Your Password web page headers ) GET /config/mail?&i=IWZkZHNKIXRzZnNydEpidXV4dSF0ZEqOZHh4fH5iU356YmNYcnM%3d&.rand=0.$ HTTP/1.0 Host: edit.my.yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; N; Linux 2.2.13 i686; en-US) Accept: */* Accept-Language: en Referer: http://mail.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:44:07 GMT Cache-Control: private Pragma: no-cache Expires: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 22:00:00 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: B=5b33k5s587e4g; expires=Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.yahoo.com ... (HTML) ------ END I haven't the time to try posting the above through a capturing session, but it might reveal useful information. This is pretty cryptic but mayhaps some sense can come from it if you know what's going on here.
I forgot to reassign to SteveM. Maybe Warren should get it.
Assignee: karnaze → warren
Could this be related to bug 27687. Same sort of symptoms and only the reporter could reproduce it. Turned out to be something bad in his profile but we never really determined what.
It would appear as though starting a "fresh" profile obviates the problem. Deleting ~/.mozilla and starting mozilla again with a new profile has fixed the problem for me. I don't know what caused it in the first place, as all I really did was change the font size and visit some web pages. If the problem reoccurs, I'll reopen it, I guess. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27687 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Marking VERIFIED DUPLICATE on: - Linux6 2000-03-01-13 Commercial build - MacOS9 2000-03-01-13 Commercial build - Win98 2000-03-01-16 Commercial build
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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