#660 Ebay login page changed?

[Henry von Tresckow]

It seems like ebay changed the login page again:

Automated esniper bug report.
esniper version 2.29.0
libcurl/7.26.0 GnuTLS/2.12.20 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.25 libssh2/1.4.2 librtmp/2.3
Error encountered in function ebayLogin in auction.c line 486
auction = 111355284014, price = 25.00, remain = 0
latency = 0, result = -1, error = 19
buf = 0x3ca560, size = 220680, read = 0x3ca560
time = 1400647768, offset = 0
pagename = "Electronics, Cars, Fashion, Collectibles, Coupons and More | eBay", pageid = "(null)", srcid = "(null)"
specified options or config values:
1 x seconds(s) = 20
1 x quantity(q) = 100
1 x (P) = ***
1 x (U) = "hvontres_2"
1 x (f) = "rand_c.auction"
2 x logdir(l) = "/root/esniper/"
unknown pageinfo

[Henry von Tresckow]

I just tested the following patch and esniper seems to be happy again:

Index: auction.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/esniper/esniper/auction.c,v
retrieving revision 1.128
diff -r1.128 auction.c
472c472,473
<                        !strncasecmp(pp->pageName, "Purchase History", 16))
---
>                        !strncasecmp(pp->pageName, "Purchase History", 16)
>                        !strncasecmp(pp->pageName, "Electronics", 11))

[Bodo]

Although the patch fixes the problem in your case, it doesn't seem to be a good concept in general. The page title looks as if it depends on your interests or preferences.
It would be better to find a setting to display one of the expected pages after login.

[Henry von Tresckow]

I agree. I am still trying to figure out how to change it. It was working just fine the day before. The Patch was more of a proof of concept than a good fix. Any ideas on how to change the first page after login back to a "My ebay" page?

[Bodo]

I just had a quick look but did not find any obvious setting yet.

[Henry von Tresckow]

Hmm, looks like there are now 5 duplicates of this, all showing the same page ID

[Bodo]

At least the page titles are very similar (with or without "Online Shopping") and your patch should work for all of them. Before creating a new version I want to check if eBay's changes allow esniper to recognize a failed login.

[vicvic42]

patch worked for me. My greetings page title looks like this:
<title>Electronics, Cars, Fashion, Collectibles, Coupons and More Online Shopping | eBay</title>

[JeffMo]

worked for me as well (my page title is the same as vicvic42)

[DavidM]

Patch worked for me too. Additionally, I reset my password to be incorrect and restarted esniper. I got the Login failed error message as expected.

[Bodo]

Thanks for testing a failed login. I will prepare a new version that includes the patch.

[Bodo]

fixed in CVS (hopefully)