[arachne] Re: Arachne Developer List (Yahoo sign-in)

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Hi Roger,

Thanks for the explanation (BTW, I do not recall you mentioning
previously about having enabled the Https2Http feature, perhaps
I missed this). Well, unfortunately, at the moment I can't explain
why sign-in doesn't work for you as it does for me and others.

I wonder if this is a compuserve.com issue? Do you know if you
can sign-in to Yahoo successfully using a different browser?

For now, it seems you will only be able to participate by e-mail, (ie.
you won't have access to the file area). To do so, just send a blank
message to : ArachneDevelopment-subscribe @ yahoogroups.com

Oh, about the "not found" thing ... this is because I have deliberately
chosen not to list the ArachneDevelopment group in Yahoo's directory,
to make it more difficult for spammers to find it.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Turk [SMTP:73527.1356@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:01 AM
> To:   arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      [arachne] Re: Arachne Developer List (Ya
> 
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> 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
> 
> Arachne at FreeLists
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