#3 Error after login on hotmail

[Bart Goossens]

Situation:
Win 2K
Firewall
Telenet - Cable internet connection

Language : Visual Basic
Compiled OCX - no problems
Opened demo program, ocx could not be loaded, so
loaded the file manually in the program. Changed no
properties.
Compiled the program.
Run, connect, give in user and password -> :-(
Program stops responding

Bart Goossens

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I was able to reproduce this issue on Windows XP. After
authentication dialog is submitted program stops
responding. I placed the system outside the firewall and
got the same results.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I experience the same problem !!!

[Julian Benjamin]

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i will be working on it.. will update you on changes.

[Two Bits]

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I have the same problems (right down to manually adding
the ocx). First off, the problem lies in the actual
MSXML2.XMLHTTP object used by the ocx. It is calling
Send synchronously (and erroneously mind you), but it
never returns. I ran it asynch, and it acts extremely
dodgey; my best guess is its the PROPFIND verb, but
MSDN says it should work. In any case, I would time it out
after 15 seconds and it would have either a readystate of 1
or 3.. and when it was 3 (interactive, can start reading
data) it would error while trying get status codes,
responsetext, etc. My best guess: its the plethora of auths
and redirects making it puke. I think it needs to be re-
written with winsock, if not inet. This should not be terribly
difficult if we leave out functionallity the app is likely to
never use. If i succeed, I'll repost the info. If anyone would
like to work on this together, email me at nkr7278 at
hotmail dot com. Cheers! - Two-Bits

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Ok, well I've definately nailed down this bug. When a page
request typically redirects, the request body is not
automatically sent to the new URI. As far as I can tell, this
is normal according to the HTTP rfc regarding user-agent
behaviours. However, the httpmail system returns a series
of redirect statuses but MUST send the same request body
to each new URI in order to work. (Well I imagine it just
needs it on the LAST request.. though I've not tried to
determine that pre-emptively). Since the VB code uses
MSXML2.XMLHTTP, which does NOT perform the needed
behaviour (actually it does carry over the Content-Length,
just not the body.. this is why it locks up!) so I had to
rewrite the object. It's complete, tested, and works, though
its still rather messy and exists as a UserControl. I'll post
it when I find time to clean it up.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Have you had a chance to post the fixes?

[Toru Marumoto]

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Quick solution.

Change your Internet security setting.
{
Internet Option-> security-> {Internet} Custormize->
allow(or show dialog) data source access between different
domain.
}

I just posted a question to the Mailing list.
I just needed to know how to connect without
changing the security setting.
But I guess you guys did not know...

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Because of security updates, http://service.msn.com needs
to be in your IE trusted sites. Then try it again...