237267 - The yahoo page cliams that the browser will not accept cookies even tho the cookies are enabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[brianleach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Cannot access either my yahoo page or my mailbox

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to yahoo.com web page
2.Try to sign in using user name and password
3.Access is blocked error message browser will not accept cookies

Actual Results:  
Access blocked

Expected Results:  
Go to my yahoo page and then using same seqi=uence access mailbox also blocked.

Same problem on Marks & Spencer finance page

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

What are your cookie settings (options/privacy/cookies)? 

Also try deleting the existing one and revisit the site. Please report back here.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Please make sure to check the Exceptions window as well, this could be a block
on yahoo.com etc.

Comment 3

[Joseph Becher]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040313
Firefox/0.8.0+

WFM: On yahoo.com I was able to sign on with no problem.

Comment 4

[Elliot Huntington]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040309

I have multiple yahoo accounts.  Some yahoo accounts ALWAYS succeed, others
ALWAYS fail.  It is entirely reproduceable and depends on the account, not on
the version of mozilla I use (ranging from 1.4 to 1.6).

I assume that this means it has something to do with the content of the cookie
itself.  Even the accounts that I can login with and read mail with, I cannot
access adult content:

1) login
2) read mail
3) try to access an adult profile
4) get prompted to confirm I want to access an adult page
5) answer yes
6) goto step 4

I mention this only as an example of a cookie that appears account-independent
that just won't stick.  Works fine under IE 6.0 and Netscape Navigator 4.79.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to reproduce with either of my Yahoo accounts on 2004041608 1.7 branch
seamonkey build on XP. Also tested firefox trunk build 20040413.

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change