firefox hotmail not loading

jools182 · Sep 14, 2007

Hi

I logged in to hotmail ok this morning, then when I tried later in the day I got this message

The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.

Also I have noticed that my cursor has changed in the address bar of firefox
It now looks like a backwards 1 i.e. it has a small line at the top going fromleft to right

fforster · Sep 15, 2007

got it working but with pain...

I had the same problem yesterday and today I started poking around with Webterceptor (a debug proxy from www.eperformant.com.
I intercepted the https traffic between Firefox and Hotmail and found out that they return a page like this:

<html><body onload="javascript:window.location='http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/sbox?wa=wsignin1.0&n=1014035859&gs=true'"><img src='http://accountservices.msn.com/loginmsn.srf?lc=1033&MSNPPAuth=B7gmo...really longstring...1CN5M5oyEc$'/></body>

The image request is the one where most important cookies (MSPAuth, MSPProf) get set.

If you copy the image source (http://accountservices.msn.com/loginmsn.srf?...) and change http to https and paste that in the URL it works fine.

The problem is that this URL is valid only 1 time and newly generated for each login.

I'm not sure how to get it to work without the debug proxy yet, but I'll look more into this.

Bobbye · Sep 15, 2007

Firefox is protecting the user by saying an undesirable redirect is taking place. Either your browser has been hijacked or a shortcut you may be using may have become corrupt.

Overriding this is not in the best interest of the user. There IS some reason this is happening!

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