[Pidgin] #15875: can't login to yahoo, Unknown error 1240

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#15875: can't login to yahoo, Unknown error 1240
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 Reporter:  shiro       |       Owner:  sulabh.dev
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new
Milestone:              |   Component:  Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN
  Version:  2.10.7      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  yahoo 1240  |
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Comment (by gb2312):

 I have the same problem, but after changing password from web site, pidgin
 now says password incorrect. Here is part of the log:


 {{{
 (13:30:55) certificate: Successfully verified certificate for
 login.yahoo.com
 (13:30:55) util: request constructed
 (13:30:55) util: Response headers: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M
 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:30:55 GMT^M
 Set-Cookie: B=ab1n9tt9ed9ev&b=3&s=98; expires=Thu, 28-Jan-2016 18:30:55
 GMT; path=/; domain=.yahoo.com^M
 P3P: policyref="http://info.yahoo.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="CAO DSP COR CUR
 ADM DEV TAI PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi TELo OTPi OUR DELi SAMi OTRi UNRi PUBi
 IND PHY ONL UNI PUR FIN COM NAV INT DEM CNT STA POL HEA PRE LOC GOV"^M
 Cache-Control: private^M
 Pragma: no-cache^M
 Expires: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 22:00:00 GMT^M
 Vary: Accept-Encoding^M
 Connection: close^M
 Transfer-Encoding: chunked^M
 Content-Type: text/html^M
 ^M
 '
 (13:30:55) yahoo: Authentication: In yahoo_auth16_stage1_cb
 (13:30:55) yahoo: Authentication error: Incorrect password. Code 1212
 (13:30:55) connection: Connection error on 0x7fbb9e683fc0 (reason: 2
 description: Incorrect password)

 }}}

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