Problem logging out of yahoo mail over Tor

Kyle Williams kyle.kwilliams at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 03:17:29 UTC 2007


Also, coderman and I messed with this URL from Yahoo with both privoxy and
squid settings for a couple of weeks, but to no avail.  So if anyone figures
this one out, please post back here so we can get this updated in JanusVM.

Thank you.

~Kyle

On 6/12/07, Kyle Williams <kyle.kwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had a problem with this too sometime last year when we tested JanusVM.
> I tried to edit privoxy rules, but nothing seemed to fix it.
> There was something in the URL that was messing it up, but I never figured
> out what.
> However, there is a part of the URL that works by itself.
>
> Example:
>
> The logout URL is:
> http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12juheg3g/M=289534.10756690.11362500.5333790/D=mail/S=150500014:HEADR/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1181710959/A=4595965/R=10/SIG=140k91pnt/*http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?logout=1&.src=ym&.intl=us&.direct=1&.done=http://www.yahoo.com&.last=http://mail.yahoo.com
>
>
> I don't know why they put all the extra crap in the beginning of the URL,
> but the part you want is:
> http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?logout=1
>
> If this is something you are going to be using often, then make a bookmark
> for "Yahoo Logout" with the above URL.
>
> ~Kyle
>
> On 6/12/07, Steve Southam <ssoutham at ironkey.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I logout of my yahoo mail account using Tor it jumps back to the
> > same page. I'm using firefox with Tor 0.1.2.14 (package, not compiling)
> > on Vista.
> > When I toggle torbutton I can logout OK.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steve
> >
> >
>
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