210726 - Yahoo refusing to login, says cookies rejected, but cookies are enabled globally

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Bryan Pizzuti]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

This appears to happen on all Yahoo sites (Mail, Messenger, etc).  Cookies are
completely enabled (no privacy settings) but Yahoo refuses to log in on this
browser version.  It's possibly that Yahoo recently changed their code on the
server side, since it worked a week or two ago.  Also, earlier Mozilla versions
(1.3.1) have no problem functioning, as I use them at home.  I am currently
using 1.4RC3 from work and it is the one having the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Call up http://my.yahoo.com or any other Yahoo login screen
2. Attempt to log in using a valid username/password
3.
Actual Results:  
The following message is recieved from Yahoo:
"The browser you're using refuses to sign in. (cookies rejected)"

Expected Results:  
It should have logged in. This might be bad coding on Yahoo's part, but IE6
still logs in from the same machine.

Comment 1

[benc]

WFM: Mozilla 1.4f, Mach-O.

I'm assuming that you had problems as soon as you used the home page login. 

This worked for me, even w/ js cookies turned off, so I'm not sure what the
cause is.

Comment 2

[Alex Hirzel]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040210

Never had a problem in any version I've touched (1.2.1+.)  Reporter, can you try
to reproduce this in a new profle?

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

worksforme with seamonkey build 2004021709 on windows XP.