#804 Login problem: ebay.de vs. ebay.com

[Jochen aus der Stadt der Scorpions]

I think esniper accesses the ebay.com site, but I am not known there. At ebay.de the access with the data in the configuration file works without problems. I have not found an option to let esniper access ebay.de.
Greetings from Hannover

[Michael S.]

Since ebay changes the login mechanism esniper not nonger works. As you can see from a closer look into esniper.c, there are several options available:

#define DEFAULT_HISTORY_HOST "offer.ebay.com"
#define DEFAULT_PREBID_HOST "offer.ebay.com"
#define DEFAULT_BID_HOST "offer.ebay.com"
#define DEFAULT_LOGIN_HOST "signin.ebay.com"
#define DEFAULT_MYEBAY_HOST "my.ebay.com"

  {"historyHost",NULL,(void*)&options.historyHost,OPTION_STRING,  LOG_NORMAL, NULL, 0},
   {"prebidHost",NULL,(void*)&options.prebidHost,  OPTION_STRING,  LOG_NORMAL, NULL, 0},
   {"bidHost", NULL, (void*)&options.bidHost,      OPTION_STRING,  LOG_NORMAL, NULL, 0},
   {"loginHost",NULL,(void*)&options.loginHost,    OPTION_STRING,  LOG_NORMAL, NULL, 0},
   {"myeBayHost",NULL,(void*)&options.myeBayHost,  OPTION_STRING,  LOG_NORMAL, NULL, 0},

/* split in two to prevent gcc portability warning.  maximum length is 509 */
static const char usageConfig1[] =
 "Configuration options (values shown are default):\n"
 "  Boolean: (valid values: true,y,yes,on,1,enabled  false,n,no,off,0,disabled)\n"
 "    batch = false\n"
 "    bid = true\n"
 "    debug = false\n"
 "    reduce = true\n"
 "    winprior = true\n"
 "  String:\n"
 "    logdir = .\n"
 "    password =\n"
 "    proxy = <http_proxy environment variable, format is http://host:port/>\n"
 "    username =\n"
 "    historyHost = %s\n"
 "    prebidHost = %s\n"
 "    bidHost = %s\n"
 "    loginHost = %s\n"
 "    myeBayHost = %s\n"
 "  Numeric: (seconds may also be \"now\")\n"
 "    delay = 2\n"
 "    quantity = 1\n"
 "    seconds = %d\n"
 "\n";

Changing login- or other Host-Settings won't lead to success.

[Bodo]

esniper was never properly designed to handle different ebay sites. In contrast to Biet-o-Matic, esniper does not provide different strings or patterns for handling localized ebay pages. Everything apart from the URLs is hard-coded.

The last commit for esniper was in 2020, my last one in 2018. I stopped using esniper because at this time ebay made some changes that were difficult to handle. In 2020, changes in the login mechanism led to Biet-o-Matic being discontinued. I guess that esniper was also affected by these changes.

After several years without code changes, I doubt that esniper will still work even on ebay.com.

The file esniper.2968188.1.bug.html shows an error message indicating that some URL used by esniper is no longer valid.

BTW: I can use the same username and password for ebay.com and ebay.de.

[Jochen aus der Stadt der Scorpions]

Thanks for the fast help!

[Jochen aus der Stadt der Scorpions]

How to close this Ticket?

[Bodo]

Closed tickets are hidden from the bugs list, so others will not see the answers we wrote here.

I changed the project summary and the home page to reflect the project's state and marked this project as abandoned.