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Title: New Invalid page format
Post by: Reikidragon on May 25, 2005, 01:24:47 PM
 I just went to download my groups this morning and poof all got the invalid page format. Looks like yahoo has changed something again.


 Is anyone else getting this????


  Alex
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Reikidragon on May 25, 2005, 01:36:13 PM
 I got mine working again by doing these options: Under file click options. Then.......



workflow : check on skip authorization


Download: check on  Speed 75 msg

uncheck: repeat

uncheck: enable messages caching

Refresh Groups:

check: refresh on startup

check: Download 1000 messages/group

check: loop 1 times
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: chspnll on May 25, 2005, 01:41:35 PM
Hey, Rekidragon,

that's teriffic

worked for me!

tks 8)
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: lklawrie on May 25, 2005, 01:50:48 PM
Looks like Yahoo may have changed something again -- turning off caching works for me (though I'm just in the process so I hope I don't get the weird subject lines again).

Linda
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Manfred on May 25, 2005, 02:02:13 PM
Yes, all my groups return an invalid page format error also.

I'm not changing any settings until this is looked at.
Everything was working fine last night.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Reikidragon on May 25, 2005, 02:14:42 PM
Changing the settings worked great for me. There was no garbled message lines and the posts came through and not a blank page.  So if you need to download the groups then you have an option.


 Alex

 P.s. Glad it works for everyone else too!
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on May 26, 2005, 12:16:57 AM
Hi Manfred,

The format is certainly changed. We will issue a patch as soon as possible.

I would recommend you try Alex's suggestion, but keep a note of your old settings.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Manfred on May 26, 2005, 12:43:08 PM
Seems that the authorization option is the problem. leaving all else the same, but checking off "skip authorization" results in succesful transfers.

Except that, if you have more than one ID, only the currently logged in ID works. The other options mentioned above don't seem to have any effect of the invalid page fault, at least not in my case.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on May 28, 2005, 03:05:56 PM
Hi All,

John Stevenson reports:

"Looks like the first stab at refresh gets the page error message, After
it's run the list of groups if you hit refresh again it works."

Others have reported this working for them also.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Manfred on May 29, 2005, 03:04:56 PM
The suggested work around doesnot work for me. See me previous post re: the authorization issue.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on May 31, 2005, 11:36:27 AM
Hi Manfred,

I'm hoping to have a patch for this by Thursday.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: wundrbee on May 31, 2005, 01:16:13 PM
Wilson,

Just an FYI - I am downloading just fine as long as "Skip authorization" is checked. If I need to add a group = the Get Groups returns an invalid page, but if I add it manually it works fine for me.

Tammi Upshaw
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 01, 2005, 04:50:10 PM
Yup, that'll do it.

I'm adding groups manually & I'm doing a double refresh which comes to the same thing.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: vpFREE on June 04, 2005, 06:18:08 AM
Quote from: Wilson Logan on May 31, 2005, 11:36:27 AM
Hi Manfred,

I'm hoping to have a patch for this by Thursday.

Cheers,

Wilson.

How is the patch coming?

Some of my groups have said invalid page format for over a week while others with the same user ID have been refreshing OK.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 04, 2005, 06:51:12 PM
Hi Manfred,

Sorry, I'm still waiting on word from the developer.

Are you still able to download groups by using one of the workarounds?

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: vpFREE on June 04, 2005, 07:02:17 PM
Quote from: Wilson Logan on June 04, 2005, 06:51:12 PM
Hi Manfred,

Sorry, I'm still waiting on word from the developer.

Are you still able to download groups by using one of the workarounds?

Cheers,

Wilson.

Some of my groups download currently, and others with the same user ID haven't downloaded  for over a week.  I'm unable to see any setup reason why some work and some don't.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 05, 2005, 12:45:44 AM
Can you give me an example of one that won't download?  Preferably a public group.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: vpFREE on June 05, 2005, 03:08:55 AM
Quote from: Wilson Logan on June 05, 2005, 12:45:44 AM
Can you give me an example of one that won't download?  Preferably a public group.

Cheers,

Wilson.

My main group <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpFREE/>
hasn't downloaded for me since 26 MAY.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 05, 2005, 10:57:36 PM
Hi Manfred,

I have DL'd messages from 43900 to present & mailed you the zipped archive file (355k).

Can someone else try joining  vpFREE

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpFREE/

and try and DL some messages?  

Cheers,

Wilson.


P.S. The vpFREE messages start at 7988.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: vpFREE on June 06, 2005, 12:04:36 AM
Quote from: Wilson Logan on June 05, 2005, 10:57:36 PM
Hi Manfred,

I have DL'd messages from 43900 to present & mailed you the zipped archive file (355k).

Can someone else try joining  vpFREE

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpFREE/

and try and DL some messages?  


Cheers,

Wilson.


P.S. The vpFREE messages start at 7988.


I have 22 groups set up on PGO and I use the same user ID
and password on all of them. On about half of them, including
vpFREE, I haven't been able to download since 26 May - getting
the invalid page format message.

The other half are downloading OK, including some vpFREE sub
groups.

All of the groups are set up the same way on PGO.

Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 06, 2005, 11:50:13 PM
Hi Manfred,

In a previous post you say:

'Some of my groups download currently, and others with the same user ID haven't downloaded  for over a week.  I'm unable to see any setup reason why some work and some don't. '

Just a thought... you are able to get some of your groups using one of your ID's with 'Skip Authorisation' turned ON (box is checked).

Now... the Skip Authorisation feature reads your browser cache to logon to Yahoo. Only one logon will be read from the cache i.e. the last ID you logged in with. Can you try logging in with the problem ID using your browser & then try using PGO to download?

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: vpFREE on June 07, 2005, 01:17:41 AM
Quote from: Wilson Logan on June 06, 2005, 11:50:13 PM
Hi Manfred,

In a previous post you say:

'Some of my groups download currently, and others with the same user ID haven't downloaded  for over a week.  I'm unable to see any setup reason why some work and some don't. '

Just a thought... you are able to get some of your groups using one of your ID's with 'Skip Authorisation' turned ON (box is checked).

Now... the Skip Authorisation feature reads your browser cache to logon to Yahoo. Only one logon will be read from the cache i.e. the last ID you logged in with. Can you try logging in with the problem ID using your browser & then try using PGO to download?

Cheers,

Wilson.

I only use one ID for all of my 22 groups on PGO and I use the same ID for logging on to Yahoo (where I'm always logged on).

All groups are set up identically on PGO, and about half are downloading OK currently and the other half haven't downloaded since 26 May and give the invalid page format error message.

Very frustrating, and I'm spending a whole lot more time on this problem than I would like.

Tom Sims
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Trench on June 07, 2005, 04:30:02 AM
I'm having the same problem. All my groups download except one, geckodrive, which has not worked since May 29.

I use the same userid for all my groups and the settings are the same for each. I've tried all the work arounds but none of them help.

-Trench
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 08, 2005, 04:01:34 PM
Hi Guys,

I'm now seeing this but sadly the developer is still experiencing no problems. However, now that I can produce test data for him to work with we might be able to move a bit quicker.  

BTW Trench, I'll try and remember to DL & update the geckodrive archive, assuming I can still access the group.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: vwsyncroguy on June 09, 2005, 04:49:37 PM
I've tried the workaround and here's what I get:

6/9/2005 8:42:01 AM >  Authorization skipped
6/9/2005 8:42:02 AM >  Request number of messages
6/9/2005 8:42:03 AM >  Number of messages : 23878
6/9/2005 8:42:03 AM >  Receive complete

But no new messages are downloaded and my last download was on May 25 at message number 22956.

Any suggestions ??

Warren C.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 09, 2005, 07:39:11 PM
Hi Warren,

Double click on the groupname in the group list. Click on Download Settings. Set the first message to download to 22956. Click OK. Click Start.

That should do it.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 09, 2005, 07:39:58 PM
Trench,

I too am locked out of Geckodrive. I've forwarded test data along to the developer so we'll see what he can do.

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Manfred on June 10, 2005, 10:03:08 AM
More Wierdness,

I have  a group that generates an invalid page fault when I select that group manually and click get messages. No error is generated when I refresh all the groups.

Any progress on a patch for these issues?

On a related note, the status messages at the bottom scroll off the screen never to be seen again making it hard to debug these things.

Are they kept in a "status log" somewhwere?
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 21, 2005, 11:08:58 PM
Hi All,

There is a new patch (2.5.039) here:

http://www.pgoffline.com/groupmanager/pgpatch25039.exe

Cheers,

Wilson.
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Trench on June 27, 2005, 07:17:42 AM
OK, I have solved this "invalid page format" problem on my system. Of my 19 groups, six would not work and the rest were just fine.

I put a packet analyzer on my lan and had a look at the raw tcp stream. It turns out that the six groups that did not work were using a different login cookie than those that did. Strange as I use the same login and password for each group.

The way to solve this is to type the following link into the browser.

"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/***groupname***/messages/?simple=1"

Replace the ***groupname*** with one of the groups than do not work. This should take you to a yahoo login page. Sign on as normal and the cookie will be updated. Now all my groups work just fine. I only had to do this once.

Even stranger is that if I went to groups.yahoo.com and clicked on that group before doing the fix above, I never had to log on but I could read the messages!!

I had the skip authorization checked in options -> workflow as per an earlier suggestion. If I unchecked that, I guess it may have solved the problem as well. I applied my fix before testing that.

Trench
Title: Re:New Invalid page format
Post by: Wilson Logan on June 28, 2005, 11:40:20 PM
Wow, neat bit of sleuthing. You are the man & no mistake :)

Give it up for Trench !!!

Cheers,

Wilson.