Hello all,
I was wondering if any of you have managed to modify the yahoo cookie so that it doesnt log you out, or can last longer than 24 hours. I have been playing with the cookies yahoo sets, but all i manage to do is log myself out
Any ideas?

On a side note, do any of you frequent a site that discuses modifying the way things work, hidden features, stuff like that? with a wide variety and such.
Not looking for anything specific, just new stuff to try out, and most likely break.

Thanks all

Modifying it probably won't work, since the yahoo server likely resets it upon every visit.

well I have this extension for firefox that locks the cookie so it cant be changed...I saw a post somewhere for doing this on another website, and tried to do it on yahoo, but I cant figure out what tells yahoo when login expires.

Posted by kc well I have this extension for firefox that locks the cookie so it cant be changed...I saw a post somewhere for doing this on another website, and tried to do it on yahoo, but I cant figure out what tells yahoo when login expires.

could you post the cookie?

Posted by stealthy could you post the cookie?

Yahoo sets more than 6 cookies, all with nonstandard hashes as the values...

Posted by Beryl Yahoo sets more than 6 cookies, all with nonstandard hashes as the values...

have to agree with beryl on this one
Suppose i am trying to do more than I can hehe oh well

Posted by kc have to agree with beryl on this one Suppose i am trying to do more than I can hehe oh well

I logged in to yahoo and opened up the cookies. I didn't see anything obvious about them other than they're all hashes that aren't standard ones so I can't attempt to break them... Mind you I only spent 10 minutes checking the cookies over, but it doesn't look like they expire locally or if they do it's encoded in a weird way that I can'T help you with the effort I put into it.

Posted by Beryl I logged in to yahoo and opened up the cookies. I didn't see anything obvious about them other than they're all hashes that aren't standard ones so I can't attempt to break them... Mind you I only spent 10 minutes checking the cookies over, but it doesn't look like they expire locally or if they do it's encoded in a weird way that I can'T help you with the effort I put into it.

Yah i spent more than enough time researching this, and all I found where other people asking the same question. Appreciate the time you did take to look though
I am pretty sure it expires locally, because if i log on at different places, at different times, they still expire 24 hours later on each computer.
But regardless, yahoo aparently doesnt want me to do this.

Posted by kc Yah i spent more than enough time researching this, and all I found where other people asking the same question. Appreciate the time you did take to look though I am pretty sure it expires locally, because if i log on at different places, at different times, they still expire 24 hours later on each computer. But regardless, yahoo aparently doesnt want me to do this.

No problem, I'll check a couple mailing list archives to see if they have any info, but it looks like they're trying to hide it...

One of my cookies has my fake postal code in it... Me wonders if they are using that for geolocation instead of IP?

I didnt see my zip code anywhere, seems interesting.
Thanks for lookin around for me
Since they are making this so hard, it makes me want to do it even more