Are Yahoo at it again - the dreaded Error : Invalid page format

[justinpwalker]

Hi all

Well I am hoping it is a temporary fix that Yahoo are doing after the issues they have had for switching user profiles (updates to how messages are received have not been processed) but I have fully 50% of the 60+ groups I am on bouncing back with this error tonight.

Example groups CarCards, DCC4EVERYONE

Cheers

Justin

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Justin,

I think you may need to switch 'Skip Authorization' off.

If you have it turned on and you clear your IE cache file you will not be able to login to your group with PGO until you login to Yahoo using IE and refresh the login information.

I'm going to guess that the only groups still working for you are the public ones ie the ones that don't need authorisation.

Cheers,

Wilson.

[justinpwalker]

Hi Wilson

Sorry to say that the Skip Auth was already switched off. Have run again with both on and off but no difference for the groups that are erroring. Will give them another go later  :(

Cheers

Justin

[justinpwalker]

Hi Wilson

Have tried again today without success. Anyone else getting this issue across any groups?

Cheers

Justin

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Justin,

Can you give me an example of a public group you are getting an error on?

Cheers,

Wilson.

[justinpwalker]

Hi Wilson

[justinpwalker]

Hi Wilson

You can try JPWalker (my own group). This is also having the issue

Cheers

Justin

[Wilson Logan]

Hi Justin,

JPWalker is not a public group. However, I did join it & was able to download it.

Can you please give me an example of a public group you cannot download.

You could try ms_excel

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ms_excel/messages

Cheers,

Wilson.

[justinpwalker]

Hi Wilson
The Ms_Excel group downloaded fine. The list of groups I am having issues with are:
AMRA-Online-NZ
CarCards
DCC4EVERYONE
DCC-Sound
Espee
Free-mo
HOn3
J6-layout

Plus about a dozen more. Meanwhile other groups download fine. I am running version 3.0.77

Cheers

[csmith510]

I have the same problem for the last two days.  My problem groups are Sonexplans, Sonextalk, Vairplanes.  I tried the ms_excel and that worked fine.....

Chris Smith

[justinpwalker]

Thanks for the confirmation Chris. The timeframe (2 days) is the same as I have been having the issue

Cheers

Justin

[Wilson Logan]

OK guys,

If you can get public but not private groups then PGO is unable to logon to Yahoo.

Have you tried looking at any of these groups in IE?  Sometimes Yahoo ask you to confirm your login. PGO should recognise that screen and handle it, but not if they've changed it recently.

Cheers,

Wilson.

 

[justinpwalker]

Hi Wilson

Have been able to get to all the groups without a problem via IE, no additional signon windows either.

Also able to get messages for about half of the groups I belong too

Cheers

[ccsmith510]

When I first logged on this morning (about 7:45 am eastern) I was getting Invalid Page Format for all my groups, which are all private.  Then a few moments later all worked fine!!  I have it set to refresh every five minutes.  Now at 2:35 pm I am getting the page format error again!

I can go to Yahoo  groups in either Firefox of IE8 and get my groups with no special password request other than the standard log-in request.

Thanks,

Chris Smith

[Wilson Logan]

Freaky!

Tell you what would be very instructive. Start PGO in debug mode. Do a Refresh, get some data. Quit. Try later and see if you can get the messages without error. If you can, start PGO in debug mode. Do a Refresh, get some data. Then we can compare the two sets of HTML.

The debug mode procedure is described here:

http://www.personalgroupware.com/smf/index.php?topic=639.msg3223#msg3223

The necessary file is attached to this message.

Cheers,

Wilson.