Yahoo tech groups - no access?????

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

I've been trying on and off all day to access the Y! tech groups but just never get through....
Anyone else with similar problems??

[Occulta (Chris)]

No problems here Ken.

Clear your internet browsing history and reboot - usually solves the problem.

Chris

[AndrewJ]

Gday Ken

If it says it "cannot redirect" or the like, i got that a few days back.
It only affects certain browsers ( i have Firefox ).
You need to delete any yahoo cookies and it comes good.

Andrew

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Thanks guys, that fixed it!!
Just need to now remember all the user and password details for the other sites!!!!

[OICURMT]

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo

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.

Yep... delete cookies for all yahoo.com domains and re-login

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I understand their undersea cable has be cut and there's problems all over the place. Yahoo have an advice up about it.
Not sure if that is the reason for your problems though.

[GrahamL]

I Often wonder how they fix the undersea cable when it gets cut ? or is it a ruse where bye someone has spilt a jug o coffee somewhere really important and no ones fessin up

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analy...es-226664.html

[Astro_Bot]

The NSA must be splicing in a new tap. Maybe YAHOO refused bulk server access, so they're getting the traffic another way. (Of course, that's pure conjecture ... )

[AndrewJ]

Nahh
When i got my lockouts, i could use windoze explorer to connect to Yahoo, but not Firefox. Simply clearing the Firefox cookies allowed it to reconnect, so i assume Yahoo or Firefox did something in an update that wouldnt play properly until the cookies were recreated.

Andrew

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Nahh
When i got my lockouts, i could use windoze explorer to connect to Yahoo, but not Firefox. Simply clearing the Firefox cookies allowed it to reconnect, so i assume Yahoo or Firefox did something in an update that wouldnt play properly until the cookies were recreated.

Yahoo broke days after the last Firefox update so that sounds unlikely.

I cleared only the Yahoo cookies and it connected straight away. They might have cached server settings that didn't work with the rerouting they had to do because of the cable cut.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Andrew

When it hit me, i googled a fair bit and saw some people had been hit a few days before me, which is how i knew to try killing off the cookies, but i was still happily connecting at that earlier time with firefox.
If the cable cut involved a redirect error, i would have thought everyone got caught at the same time, and all browsers etc would be affected.
Its all getting too complicated.
Anyone ready for a good Chinese hacking conspiracy theory :-)

Andrew