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From: Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>
Cc: Gnus Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: webmail/yahoo problems
Date: 01 Dec 1999 22:46:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2nbt8a57jd.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: David Aspinwall's message of "01 Dec 1999 18:01:15 -0800"

>>>>> "David" == David Aspinwall <aspinwall@timesten.com> writes:

David> Hi.  I tried accessing my yahoo mail using webmail, and had some
David> problems.  I did this:

David>   (push '(webmail :subtype yahoo :user "aspin") mail-sources)

David> then tried to get new mail.  These came out in the *Messages* buffer:

David>   nnml: Reading incoming mail from webmail...
David>   Password for aspin at yahoo: 
David>   Password for aspin at yahoo: .
David>   Password for aspin at yahoo: ..
David>   Password for aspin at yahoo: ...
David>   Password for aspin at yahoo: .........
David>   Contacting mail.yahoo.com:80
David>   Reading [text/plain]... 393 bytes
David>   Retrieval complete. [2 times]
David>   Mark set
David>   Retrieval complete. [8 times]
David>   Contacting edit.yahoo.com:80
David>   Retrieval complete. [6 times]

David> But then a *W3-WARNINGS* buffer appeared, with this:

David>   (url/error) The URL http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?749hhtagc98rc tried to issue a redirect to http://login.yahoo.com/config/verify?.done=http%3a//edit.yahoo.com/config/mail%3f.intl= using a method other than
David>   GET, which can open up various security holes.  Please see the
David>   HTTP/1.0 specification for more details.


David> And this in the minibuf:

David>   Mail source error ((error Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size)).

David> I set debug-on-error to t, but there wasn't any trace.

David> The environment is Windows NT with:
David>   emacs-version "20.4.1"
David>   gnus-version "Pterodactyl Gnus v0.99"
David>   w3-version "WWW 4.0pre.46 1999/10/01 20:22:11"

David> Do you have any idea what might be going wrong?

David> Thanks for all your work on gnus.

To use webmail, you need patch w3, since Yahoo only accept one line
cookie. I've sent the patch to the ding list when I announced the
function.

Don't worry about the *W3-WARNINGS* buffer. It is OK. It is because
the status code returned from web server is not so standard, and w3
think it is not secure.

-- 
Shenghuo


      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-02  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-19  7:07 agent and mail-source Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-01 18:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-12-01 22:50   ` Shenghuo ZHU
     [not found]     ` <ur9h614pg.fsf_-_@TimesTen.com>
1999-12-02  3:46       ` Shenghuo ZHU [this message]

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