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)
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(Reporter: bmh_ca, Assigned: warrensomebody)
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(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.
Comment 1•25 years ago
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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
Comment 2•25 years ago
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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).
Reporter | ||
Comment 3•25 years ago
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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.
Comment 4•25 years ago
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Reassigning to SteveM
Comment 5•25 years ago
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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?
Reporter | ||
Comment 6•25 years ago
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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.
Comment 7•25 years ago
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I forgot to reassign to SteveM. Maybe Warren should get it.
Assignee: karnaze → warren
Comment 8•25 years ago
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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.
Reporter | ||
Comment 9•25 years ago
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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
Comment 10•25 years ago
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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
Updated•6 years ago
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Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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