PWB (v2.1.0.9) and new Yahoo chat

vinhpham · Post by **vinhpham** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:50 pm

Hello Everyone,
We are using PWB v2.1.0.9 and also tested with PWB v2.1.1.3. Yahoo chat is not available on both PWB versions. Chat service is available under IE8 (on the same computer). See attached screenshot. Has anyone seen this problem? Is there a way for us to change the browser agent for PWB?

Screenshot ->

Thanks!
Vinh

Post by **Scott** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:37 pm

The screen shot link does not work.

We tested PWB v2.11.3 and PWB v2.11.4 using an unedited INI file on http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/ without issues.

If you are using the PWB filters you may not be allowing access to portions web site. If you use a stock unedited INI file on your systems does the site work?

The browser is reported as whatever version of IE you are using. For example using PWB v2.11.3 on Windows XP with IE 8 the User Agent is reported as the following from http://whatsmyuseragent.com/.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Using IE the User Agent is reported as follows from the same site.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

As you can see they are identical, so the User Agent string is probably not the issue.

You can add the Station name to the User Agent string with the following settings.

[Browser]
AddStationToUserAgent=True

[Security]
StationEnvironmentVariable=COMPUTERNAME

Which results in the following.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) PWB:TSSWKS01;

--Scott

vinhpham · Post by **vinhpham** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:59 am

Thanks Scott. I fixed the inline image on my post. PWB seems to work fine when connecting directly to the webmessenger.yahoo.com site. The problem we are having is getting the chat option when logging into the main Yahoo! Mail page. The chat section where you can set "Available, Busy or Invisible.." does not show up in PWB. I tested with both stock .INI and our flavor, same result for both.

--vinh

Post by **Scott** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:26 pm

Thank you. We are checking on it.

Interestingly enough it works with IE 9.

--Scott

vinhpham · Post by **vinhpham** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:09 am

I tried with IE 9 and PWB 2.1.1.3 (no .INI modification). I am getting a different result.

I thought it might be that I have Firefox 6 installed, uninstalled and re ran the test, same result.

Thanks,
Vinh
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