esniper: a lightweight eBay sniping tool / Bugs / #668 esniper-2-31 parseBidHistory in history.c line 307

Tony Hammond - 2014-06-09

One other thing to mention - changed ebay password to incorporate special characters = @! etc..

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Bodo - 2014-06-09

I don't think it's related to your password change.

The error message is "remaining time not found". The attached page contains "Time ended: 09-Jun-14 15:09:10 BST", so esniper should normally skip this auction.
Please check if the problem is also present when you do not specify the hosts to use (historyHost etc). There might be a difference between the ebay.com and ebay.co.uk pages.

If the problem does not occur with the default ebay.com hosts I will not spend any time to investigate, but I will accept patches that are compatible with the default hosts.

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Tony Hammond - 2014-06-09

Thanks for the quick response. I reasoned that it must have choked on the @ character in my password as it wrote 1 gig of esniper.#####.txt.log. And thousands of bug
html files. I took it out of my password, and it all seems to work fine now. I am bidding without problems. I will try and replicate to make sure.

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- Bodo - 2014-06-10
  
  OK. If you can reproduce the problem by re-inserting the @ character I will have to investigate. There is no obvious relation between the password and the error message in the bug reports.
  
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Tony Hammond - 2014-06-10

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Auction 231248325207: Cannot connect to URL https://signin.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates: SSL certifica
te problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
Retrying...
Auction 231248325207: Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 16 GB Titanium Grey (Unlocked) Smartphone Extras
esniper encountered a bug. Please go to:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=45285&atid=442436
paste this into "Detailed Description":
Automated esniper bug report.
esniper version 2.31.0
libcurl/7.26.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.25 libssh2/1.4.2 librtmp/2.3
Error encountered in function parseBidHistory in history.c line 307
auction = 231248325207, price = 143.99, remain = 0
latency = 0, result = -1, error = 0
buf = 0x14c8cc8, size = 67722, read = 0x14c8cc8
time = 1402393493, offset = 0
pagename = "PageViewBids_Closed_None", pageid = "(null)", srcid = "ViewBids"
specified options or config values:
2 x username(u) = ***
2 x password() = ***
2 x seconds(s) = 5
3 x quantity(q) = 1
1 x (f) = "note2.txt"
2 x reduce() = 1
2 x bid() = 1
2 x debug(d) = 1
2 x batch(b) = 0
2 x logdir(l) = "/share"
2 x historyHost() = "offer.ebay.co.uk"
2 x prebidHost() = "offer.ebay.co.uk"
2 x bidHost() = "offer.ebay.co.uk"
2 x loginHost() = "signin.ebay.co.uk"
2 x myeBayHost() = "my.ebay.co.uk"
remaining time not found
then upload and attach esniper.11647.1.bug.html and click submit.
Auction 231248325207: Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 16 GB Titanium Grey (Unlocked) Smartphone Extras
esniper encountered a bug. Please go to:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=45285&atid=442436
paste this into "Detailed Description":

It didn't work this morning. Seemed to work last night bidding for something else.
This time the first bug is a certificate error, and then we get many ParseBidHistory error in History.c at 307 etc...
I have now changed from libcurl4-openssl-dev to libcurl4-gnutls-dev and will retry. I have installed curl.

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Tony Hammond - 2014-06-10

Ok - I have now recompiled esniper-2-31-0 with curl etc.. installed (After cleaning the build directory). No certificate errors.
I am attaching all log files. Still intermittent time remaining error. Configuration file shows ;
historyHost = offer.ebay.co.uk
prebidHost = offer.ebay.co.uk
bidHost = offer.ebay.co.uk
loginHost = signin.ebay.co.uk
myeBayHost = my.ebay.co.uk

Will change HistoryHost to offer.ebay.com and retry

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esniper.231248325207.log

esniper.251552336217.log

esniper.log

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Tony Hammond - 2014-06-10

Seems to work fine when HistoryHost changed.

Auction 231248325207: Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 16 GB Titanium Grey (Unlocked) Smartphone Extras
Time remaining: -- (0 seconds)
Currently: 170.00 (your maximum bid: 143.99)

of bids: 33

High bidder: h***t (NOT tonyhamm)

Auction 251552336217: Samsung GALAXY Note 2 GT-N7100 - 16 GB - Titanium Grey (O2 Network) Smartphone
Time remaining: 5 hours 23 mins 13 secs (19393 seconds)
End time: 10/06/2014 17:36:53
Currently: 122.00 (your maximum bid: 142)

of bids: 13

High bidder: k***a (NOT tonyhamm)

Auction 111376924731: Samsung Galaxy Note 2 II GT-N7100 - 16 GB - Titanium Grey (Unlocked) Smartphone
Time remaining: -- (0 seconds)
Currently: 174.99 (your maximum bid: 146)

of bids: 9

High bidder: f***s (NOT tonyhamm)

Auction 121359941373: Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE GT-N7105 - 16 GB - Titanium Grey (Unlocked)...
Time remaining: 3 hours 4 mins 14 secs (11054 seconds)
End time: 10/06/2014 15:18:03
Currently: 117.00 (your maximum bid: 145.12)

of bids: 2

High bidder: a***t (NOT tonyhamm)

Sorting auctions...

Need to win 1 item(s), 2 auction(s) remain

Auction 121359941373: Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE GT-N7105 - 16 GB - Titanium Grey (Unlocked)...
Time remaining: 3 hours 4 mins 12 secs (11052 seconds)
End time: 10/06/2014 15:18:03
Currently: 117.00 (your maximum bid: 145.12)

of bids: 2

High bidder: a***t (NOT tonyhamm)
Latency: 0 seconds
Tue Jun 10 12:13:52 2014: Sleeping for 1 hours 4 minutes

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Seems to be no problems when I changed HistoryHost to offer.ebay.com So its nothing to do with pw unescaped characters...
Will keep historyHost as offer.ebay.com and see how we go from here.

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Bodo - 2014-06-10

IIRC the problem with the openssl version of the CURL library has been present for some time.
As it seems to works with the default host for the bid history, I will close this bug report with Status "closed-wont-fix" because we have a working build environment and configuration.
Thanks for testing with different libraries and configuration.

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Bodo - 2014-06-10

status: open --> closed-wont-fix
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