#681 esniper can't log into german ebay servers

[Arne Schmitz]

I am using es-f with esniper, and am getting the following error any time I want to start an auction:

Auction 161579348252: Login failed
then upload and attach esniper.28186.1.bug.html and click submit.
  unknown pageinfo
    1 x myeBayHost() = "my.ebay.de"
    1 x loginHost() = "signin.ebay.de"
    1 x bidHost() = "offer.ebay.de"
    1 x prebidHost() = "offer.ebay.de"
    1 x historyHost() = "offer.ebay.de"
    1 x batch(b) = 1
    1 x debug(d) = 0
    1 x (f) = "161579348252.root_42"
    1 x (c) = ".c"
    1 x quantity(q) = 1
    1 x seconds(s) = 10
    1 x password() = ***
    1 x username(u) = ***
  specified options or config values:
  pagename = "Elektronik, Autos, Mode, Sammlerst ¼cke, Gutscheine und mehr Online-Shopping | eBay", pageid = "(null)", srcid = "(null)"
  time = 1423418457, offset = 0
  buf = 0x2485490, size = 85827, read = 0x2485490
  latency = 0, result = -1, error = 19
  auction = 161579348252, price = 2, remain = 0
  Error encountered in function ebayLogin in auction.c line 489
  libcurl/7.26.0 GnuTLS/2.12.20 zlib/1.2.7 libidn/1.25 libssh2/1.4.2 librtmp/2.3
  esniper version 2.31.0
  Automated esniper bug report.
paste this into "Detailed Description":
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=45285&atid=442436
esniper encountered a bug.  Please go to:

Please find attached the bug.html that comes with such a failure.

[Bodo]

I'm sorry, I don't have time to care about local servers (German or other). In some places esniper has to look for certain visible text patterns in the HTML pages. This will not work for non-English pages and may even not work with English pages other than ebay.com.

(I know that it would be better to use your respective country's server because eBay knows which server you used to bid and will redirect you there if you want to complain about a problem after your purchase.)

If someone finds out what exactly has to be done to make this work, I will apply the changes.

[Rainer Dorsch]

I hit the same error message and found that the problem was that I had alerts after login (my credit card expired and ebay could not bill me).

Seems that esniper could not handle these. After archiving the alerts, esniper seems to work again (not successful bid yet, but at least it does not finish immediately after signin anymore)

[Velociraptor]

Hi Bodo,
so I tested it and wanted to know whats the problem but seems like you just want to check if you are logged in? With the IF in auction.c line 459?

Maybe we could changen the logic that you make another http-get to my.ebay.* and check if the returned URL is my.ebay.* or signin.ebay.* ?

Because EBay redirects you to signin if you are not logged in and try to open myebay.

Any thoughts on this?

bye

[niknah]

Try to change auction.c, all the messages that say "Welcome" should be changed to the equivalent in German.

Looks like you logged in.

This is better than ebay.com.au which is failing with an error...
"One of the parameters received was invalid for this function. This probably means that your browser had problems with the form or you invoked the function incorrectly. Please go back and try again. If you're using an old bookmark, you may need to rebookmark it due to recent changes to protect your privacy. We are aware of the problem and are working tirelessly to resolve it as quickly as possible."

[Michael S.]

The error you get has to do with some general changes on the sign in page: https://sourceforge.net/p/esniper/bugs/705/

An approach to solve the "language issue" could be, not to search for the text content, but for special html-entities.

[niknah]

Thanks for figuring that out! The auction.c file works for me now!