[arachne] Re: Arachne Developer List (Ya

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Hi Joe,

Joe da Silva wrote:

. > Thanks, Roger.

. > This _is_ certainly different to what the rest of us get! I can only
. > suppose your old Yahoo cookie is responsible for this difference.

. > Have you tried moving/hiding your cookie file to see how a fresh
. > sign-in behaves? A number of us _do_ sign-in to Yahoo with
. > Arachne and the only tricks involved are :

. > 1. Cheat the "https" stuff. Note, in one of my earlier postings,
. >    I said words to the effect "AFAIK, 1.71 doesn't have the
. >    Https2Http feature available". Well, since then I have verified
. >    that 1.71 was the first version with this feature. So edit your
. >    'arachne.cfg' file and add the line "Https2Http Yes". Easy.

Some time ago, before Yahoo had their js or security whatsis set up, I 
selected "my.yahoo.com" as my home page and configured it to display the news 
and other information that I cared to see on my home page.  I could "sign in" 
and "sign out" with impunity.  If I "signed out," Yahoo would remove their 
cookie from my cookie file.  I got tired of getting the "Welcome, Guest" 
screen each time and "signing in" in order to get the screen I wanted, so I 
stopped, "signing out."  

When I upgraded to some new version of Arachne, I forgot to copy my cookie 
file and got the "Welcome, Guest," screen.  Trying to "sign in" gave me the 
run around that I have described.  For some reason or another, I used the 
older version of Arachne to access the web and got the "Welcome Back Roger," 
screen that had the news that I wanted to see.  It was then that I remembered 
that I had not copied the old cookie file.

My Arachne.cfg does/did have HTTPS2HTTP Yes, which is why I was not getting 
https://~~~ on the status line.  I changed that to "No" and got "https://~~~ 
on the status line (and in the URL window).  I manually deleted the "s" and 
it did not affect the runaround that I got.  I brought up the source page, 
searched for "https:" and changed that to "http:" (2 places) and it did not 
affect the runaround.  I tried signing in as another user, and got the same 
runaround when I entered an new password and "verified" it.

I can read the messages on the ArachneDevelopment group site (23 as of last 
night) and see that there are only 7 members of the ArachneDevelopment 
group.  However, not being a member of the group, I do not receive the 
messages as e-mail.

. > 2. Avoid clicking on the E-mail link. As Glenn has pointed out,
. >    this is likely to lock-up Arachne.

I do not click on the E-mail link, and I have not experienced any lockup with 
Yahoo, either on the My.Yahoo.com page or the ArachneDevelopment group page.  
I am using M$-DOS 5.0 on one machine and 6.22 on another and they both behave 
the same.

. > I'm fairly confident that, without your old cookie to complicate
. > matters, you should be able to sign-in to Yahoo Groups and
. > have full access (except for file uploading) to the Development
. > List using good old Arachne (if you so desire, that is).

I do so desire to join the ArachneDevelopment group, which is what I have 
been trying to do since December 9th, when you announced the creation of the 
group on Yahoo.

Incidently, if I go to "http://groups.yahoo.com"; ---> web browsers, and 
search for Arachne, it comes up with "Not found."

Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona

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