Need help please (Yahoo login)

Hi i am trying to figure out how yahoo does their login and when to tell if it was successful or not if you can help in any way please let me know what i am doing wrong i have uploaded the souce for the project

Thanks

Are you aware of the tool called RoboForm which allows you to store and use login info for any site?

even with SSL?

I'm not sure what SSL is but here is a picture of what it looks like when I go to one of several websites for which I have logins set up. In this case the site is EatYourBooks and RoboForm recognizes that and sets up the button for me to click which logs me in.

I looked at your code. You are engaged in a prohibited activity:

Yahoo! Terms of Service

Section 18:

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You agree not to access the Yahoo! Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Yahoo! for use in accessing the Yahoo! Services.

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Yahoo provides APIs for access to the few services they do allow users to automate, after accepting additional terms. The web scraping you want to do isn't legal.

I might be wrong here but doesn't the software communicate with the database to modify the user details then compares the information in the username text and password box in the software to the information in the database. The username and password are entered by the user via the registration page.

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Originally Posted by Nightwalker83

I might be wrong here but doesn't the software communicate with the database to modify the user details then compares the information in the username text and password box in the software to the information in the database. The username and password are entered by the user via the registration page.

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Are you talking about RoboForm?

dilettante: Correct me if I am wrong.. If I create a tool to automate my login and the login happens through that interface then I don't see a violation in their terms and conditions.

For example If my tool opens IE using CreateObject and navigates to their "Interface" and then fill the username and password and then "clicks" the "Login" button.

Sid

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Originally Posted by MartinLiss

Are you talking about RoboForm?

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No, the Yahoo software (any software that logs in to a website).

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Originally Posted by koolsid

dilettante: Correct me if I am wrong.. If I create a tool to automate my login and the login happens through that interface then I don't see a violation in their terms and conditions.

For example If my tool opens IE using CreateObject and navigates to their "Interface" and then fill the username and password and then "clicks" the "Login" button.

Sid

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I can't imagine Yahoo would have any problem with that.