Bug 126207 - hotmail sign in does not work
Summary: hotmail sign in does not work
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kopete
Classification: Applications
Component: MSN Plugin (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Keywords:
: 125896 126684 126873 126993 129813 130613 134182 142119 144173 148212 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2006-04-25 04:32 UTC by bonne
Modified: 2008-11-15 06:09 UTC (History)
12 users (show)

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Description bonne 2006-04-25 04:32:17 UTC
Version:           3.4.3 (using KDE 3.4.3, Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.15-gentoo-r1

It appears that signing in to hotmail using konqueror just stopped working. 
It gets into some kind of endless loop cycling back between two pages. 
Maybe hotmail changed something to make it incompatible?
Comment 1 Alastair Mailer 2006-04-27 21:17:54 UTC
I also get this bug, but only when trying to sign in through Kopete. Going direct to www.hotmail.com in Konqueror and signing in seems to work alright

Version: Kopete 0.11.1 (Using KDE 3.5.2)
         Konqueror - Konqueror 3.5.2 (Using KDE 3.5.2)
Compiler: 
OS: Linux (x86) 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
Comment 2 Damien Gombault 2006-04-27 23:56:13 UTC
I have the bug like Bonne Eggleston with both Kopete and Konqueror.
I can access my hotmail account only if I delete my cookies (from hotmail.com, live.com and passport.com) each time.

Version :
 - Konqueror 3.5.2
 - Kopete 0.12 beta 2
Comment 3 Tommi Tervo 2006-05-03 18:48:37 UTC
*** Bug 126684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Juan Luis Baptiste 2006-05-03 20:37:01 UTC
I can confirm this bug on 3.5.2 on Mandriva cooker current to 04212006.
Comment 5 Ismail Donmez 2006-05-07 02:06:08 UTC
*** Bug 126873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Tommi Tervo 2006-05-09 09:03:34 UTC
*** Bug 126993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Richard Homonnai 2006-05-23 16:14:11 UTC
Also happening on Gentoo with KDE 3.5.2
Comment 8 Tommi Tervo 2006-06-07 21:46:26 UTC
*** Bug 125896 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Pascal d'Hermilly 2006-06-08 23:37:01 UTC
Why doesnt this have status: confirmed?
I'm having the same problem by the way...
Kubuntu Dapper with KDE 3.5.2
Comment 10 Pascal d'Hermilly 2006-06-08 23:37:37 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 11 Pascal d'Hermilly 2006-06-14 00:52:05 UTC
I just found out that it works when you enter hotmail indirectly. I chose "send mail" after rightclicking on one of my friends in kopete, then Konqueror opened my mail and had prepared a new mail. afterwards I could click my way to my mailbox... Strange behaviour
Actually now hotmail works totally for me. also signing in the normal way.
Comment 12 Pascal d'Hermilly 2006-06-14 00:58:51 UTC
Nop, still doesnt work with signing in through kopete when you log on. It does allow me to enter hotmail manually now though.
Comment 13 Juan Luis Baptiste 2006-06-14 01:41:41 UTC
Yes, it now works for me too, using 3.5.2.
Comment 14 Pascal d'Hermilly 2006-06-14 01:44:06 UTC
But the problem persist when logging automatically in through Kopete. I suppose thats a Kopete bug though.
Comment 15 Pascal d'Hermilly 2006-06-25 23:44:42 UTC
I filed a bug in Kopete for this issue. 

see Bug 129813
Comment 16 Olivier Goffart 2006-06-26 18:17:54 UTC
*** Bug 129813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Olivier Goffart 2006-06-26 18:20:04 UTC
I don't know what the problem is.  maybe a problem in the hotmail's javascript
Comment 18 Pascal d'Hermilly 2006-06-26 22:44:07 UTC
Olivier, please explain why you marked the bug in kopete a duplicate of this bug. 

There used to be a bug in konqueror so that you were unable to use hotmail with konqueror. Now it's only a problem with autologin from Kopete. Why shouldn't this be filed as a seperate bug in konqueror?

-Pascal
Comment 19 Olivier Goffart 2006-06-26 23:26:01 UTC
There is maybe a problem in Kopete ... or not ;-)

What we did worked before.  now it doesn't work anymore.
Is it because a konqueror change, or an hotmail change,  or a kopete change ?

In all case, I don't know where the problem is exactly, so i'm unable to repair it. 
Comment 20 Juan Luis Baptiste 2006-07-11 17:07:49 UTC
It isn't a kopete bug I think as I noticed today that gaim (2.0 beta3) has the same problem.
Comment 21 Olivier Goffart 2006-07-13 00:50:00 UTC
*** Bug 130613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Olivier Goffart 2006-07-13 13:03:29 UTC
This is a problem due to a change in the Microsoft side.
I don't know what's the solution for this anyway.
Comment 23 Philippe ROUBACH 2006-08-01 16:39:00 UTC
i have not this pb with the version with kde 3.4.2
Comment 24 Yann 2006-08-30 20:05:02 UTC
Still valid with Kopete 0.12.1 (Kde 3.5.4).

Workaround with "send mail" to a contact works.
Comment 25 Philip Rodrigues 2006-09-18 00:13:45 UTC
*** Bug 134182 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 26 Philip Rodrigues 2007-01-31 19:49:16 UTC
Anyone still seeing this in KDE 3.5.6/Kopete 0.12.4?
Comment 27 Yuriy Kozlov 2007-02-02 22:53:40 UTC
Another user with this problem on KDE 3.5.5 and 3.5.6 here: https://launchpad.net/kdebase/+bug/82789
Both just logging in through the website and through a link from aMSN.
I don't have a hotmail account so I can't test it.
Comment 28 Lamarque V. Souza 2007-02-03 00:20:00 UTC
Yes, it still happens with KDE 3.5.6 and Kopete 0.12.4. Sometimes the "send mail" workaround works sometimes does not.
Comment 29 Roderick B. Greening 2007-02-21 15:28:35 UTC
I confirm this is happening on Gentoo Linux with KDE 3.5.6 / Kopete 0.12.4 as well.

Any ideas as to what we can try to help track down where the issues is and how we can potentially work around it? I am willing to patch/test anything proposed.
Comment 30 Will Stephenson 2007-03-03 13:37:46 UTC
*** Bug 142119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 31 Thomas Bergheim 2007-03-03 13:48:35 UTC
I can confirm this on dapper, edgy and feisty (I've had it like this for a very long time).

I noticed that if I try to log into "http://www.hotmail.com" manually, everything works fine. However if I log in to "http://hotmail.com", I get into the same loop. I don't think this is the problem though, since msnnotifysocket.cpp writes this in the /tmp/ file that does the redirection:
<meta http-equiv=Refresh content="0; url=http://www.hotmail.com">

However, the problem is very much likely to be with the form that is submited as POST just below (around line 634 in msnnotifysocket.cpp).

Removing it is one quick solution, at least you get the page up and can just log in manually.
Comment 32 Tommi Tervo 2007-04-15 11:50:51 UTC
*** Bug 144173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 33 Rafael 2007-04-30 18:21:25 UTC
Mozilla Firefox load the page correctly, this may be a help to fix it in conqueror.
Comment 34 Hans Meier 2007-05-01 20:30:00 UTC
When I go to http://www.hotmail.com/ and try to log in, it doesn't work. I'm redirected to a https site, and from there the login does work. Is this related to this bug - I'm a bit confused because a lot of comments are taking about Kopete, and this is totally unrelated. Can anyone confirm this behavior?
Comment 35 Stephen Baker 2007-05-02 04:16:27 UTC
I can confirm both behaviours and they 'appear' to be unrelated
Comment 36 Stephen Baker 2007-06-02 16:02:26 UTC
The problem has not affected me since I signed up for 'Windows Live Mail'  I think that constitutes a pretty easy work around.
Comment 37 Lamarque V. Souza 2007-07-19 02:33:29 UTC
When Kopete launchs Koqueror it uses a URL like http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/sbox?t=...&p=...&lc=...&id=...&rru=/cgi-bin/HoTMaiL that URL redirects to another URL, that redirects to another URL similar to the first one. If I copy the first URL, make Konqueror stop loading the URL, paste the URL to the location input text and press ENTER Konqueror almost always opens my Hotmail correctly. I think there must be a race condition somewhere, or an event that is being called more than once or something like that.
Comment 38 2007-07-26 02:56:20 UTC
im kde from branch_3.5 svn release 691988 and this bug continues being valid.
Comment 39 2007-07-26 03:00:02 UTC
What i mean is that when cliking from konqueror to open email it fails to enter in hotmail, but when running konqueror and entering in hotmail webpage, then it logins without probs.
Comment 40 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-08-11 19:11:40 UTC
*** Bug 148212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 41 Matt Rogers 2008-11-15 06:09:05 UTC
We've completely replaced the current MSN implementation with a new MSN implementation which  If you continue to experience this bug after testing the new implementation (which can be gotten from our subversion repository or with the KDE 4.2 Beta 1 release), PLEASE, open a new bug rather than reopening this bug. Thank you for your time and efforting in helping us find and fix problems in Kopete.