204355 - Cookies regarding Yahoo Mail don't work correctly. Doesn't allow me to "stay" logged in.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Arlen Pavka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

If you login to Yahoo Mail, and ask it to "stay" logged in, as I have it for my
homepage, it'll always ask for my password. It will never allow me to stay
logged in for more than one session. I've tried this on two different computers
using the same version of Mozilla 1.3. For both computers, I would like it if it
could login to my mail page by default, like it can in Internet Explorer. It's
supposed to come to a welcome page, and have a link to check your mail. On one
computer, this page doesn't come up at all, saying I have to log in both user
name and password. On the other computer it logins to the main welcome page, but
when I want to check the mail, I get a page that says I have to enter my
password. A page which as Yahoo themselves say, is supposed to come up
OCCASIONALLY, but for this computer, it comes up every single time.

The other weird thing, is that when I tell it to remember cookies, in Cookie
manager, it'll say the cookie expires in very bizare dates like May 21, 2145. Is
that right?

Other cookies work fine

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Sign up a yahoo Mail account
2.Login and make sure "Remember Password" is checked
3.Make sure the Welcome page (usually something like sbc.yahoo.com) is set as
your homepage.
4.Close Mozilla and restart

Actual Results:  
You should either get the homepage and just have to worry about giving your
password for mail, or the page won't come up at all saying you have to login
your username and password.


Expected Results:  
A nice welcome page should appear, and OCCAISIONALLY a page will come up asking
for a password when you click the link to check your mail.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

That's very interesting - the largest expiry time 1.3 allows would be 2038,
because of 32-bit time representation. 2145 is bizarre for that reason, although
many sites commonly set cookies with ridiculous expiration dates - so I wouldn't
worry about that.

this could easily be an overflow issue - I recommend you try 1.4b when it comes
out in a day or so, or wait for 1.4, and see if that fixes the problem. (we use
64-bit times now). persistent yahoo logins work fine for me on 1.4.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Arlen, this works for me with a recent Mozilla 1.7 trunk build on WinXP. Is this
fixed for you in recent Mozilla builds? If not, please reopen.

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

No patch / bug identified that fixed this.

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