#140 Yahoo IM protocol seems to have changed

[David Spencer]

Anyone know if the Yahoo protocol has changed?
This notice is a clue:

http://messenger.yahoo.com/notice.html

I am the author of YIMGoogle, a bot:

http://www.tropo.com/techno/java/yimgoogle/

And after working fine for 2 or so months
it has stopped :(

Here is some output:

Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
Trying to connect to cs.yahoo.com/216.136.233.129
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
dest=[YahooRecipient: david_spencerian]
sending to david_spencerian
sendcmd: writeall failed
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException:
java.net.SocketException: Descriptor not a socket: socket
write error
at com.lumos.im.YahooIM.send(Unknown Source)
at com.lumos.im.YIMGoogle2.main(Unknown Source)
sendcmd: writeall failed
before connect
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
Trying to connect to cs.yahoo.com/216.136.233.129
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
after connect
OTHER: wtanaka.praya.InfoMessage / [InfoMessage: from
Yahoo! Pager (online)
Yahoo Pager has closed your connection.]
sendcmd: writeall failed
before connect
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
Trying to connect to cs.yahoo.com/216.136.233.129
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
after connect
OTHER: wtanaka.praya.InfoMessage / [InfoMessage: from
Yahoo! Pager (online)
Yahoo Pager has closed your connection.]
sendcmd: writeall failed
before connect
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
Trying to connect to cs.yahoo.com/216.136.233.129

I have another yahoo api that also doesn't
seem to work:

[YahooClient] Retrieved buddy list:
[YahooEventChannel] getPacket
[YahooEventChannel]
[YahooEventChannel] Packet Received
[YahooEventChannel]
Protocol: 0
Service: 20
Flag: 1
ConnectionId: -1240422530
Raw Content:
5+Çyimgoogle+Ç4+ÇSYSTEM+Ç14+ÇBeginning July
17th 2002, Yahoo! will no longer support this version of
Yahoo
! Messenger. Please upgrade to the latest version by visiting
http://messenger.yahoo.com/notice.html Thank you.+Ç
Formatted Content:
14=Beginning July 17th 2002, Yahoo! will no longer
support this version of Yahoo! Messenger. Please upgrade
to the lat
est version by visiting
http://messenger.yahoo.com/notice.html Thank you.
5=yimgoogle
4=SYSTEM
[YahooEventChannel] getPacket
[YahooEventChannel]
[YahooEventChannel] Packet Received
[YahooEventChannel]
Protocol: 0
Service: 1
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238
after connect
OTHER: wtanaka.praya.InfoMessage / [InfoMessage: from
Yahoo! Pager (online)
Yahoo Pager has closed your connection.]
sendcmd: writeall failed
before connect
Trying to connect to msg.edit.yahoo.com/216.136.225.238

[Wesley Tanaka]

Logged In: YES
user_id=11717

David,

Thanks for the bug report. I am reassigning to Iggy who is
going to work on this.