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[quote="BtotheE"]Would there be a way that an automatic ebay user/password check could be written into the interface so that at log in it automatically verifies that you will be able to place a bid successfully at auction? Better would be right after you set up a snip for that particular item? Possibly a "Auction Log In Successful" screen just to give the user piece of mind. In the past I used a software program (Jbid?) that would give you an error if the use/password was incorrect and it gave me piece of mind. The reason I ask is... I ran into a problem over the weekend loosing out on an auction. The problem was that I logged into Gixen.com with the right ebay user name but some how my browser had cached a password for the Gixen site that was not the right password for my ebay account. When the auction ended I found out that I had not placed a bid on the item. I checked the Gixen site and it had a log in error (wrong password). When I re-logged in to Gixen with the right password I found that there was no trace of the auction in my history and it was as if I had logged into Gixen as a completely different user. I was really disappointed that I lost out because of it. TIA![/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>mario</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:40 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Unfortunately - no, and here is the reason. <br /> <br />Gixen used to check user's passwords each time they login and verify them with ebay. This started causing problems with ebay - too many logins in proportion to bids, and then ebay started inserting captcha's, disabling sniping all together. <br /> <br />This is the point where I had to introduce password hashing - a password is checked with ebay only the first time it's used, and then a hash of such verified password is stored for the future logins to Gixen (Gixen, as you know, does not store passwords indefinitely). <br /> <br />The subsequent problem we have to live with, and it's a least of all evils, is that when a password is changed at ebay, Gixen doesn't know this. User has to log in to Gixen with the correct password the first time. <br /> <br />I hope this makes sense.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>BtotheE</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:20 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: User/Password Check</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Would there be a way that an automatic ebay user/password check could be written into the interface so that at log in it automatically verifies that you will be able to place a bid successfully at auction? Better would be right after you set up a snip for that particular item? <br /> <br />Possibly a "Auction Log In Successful" screen just to give the user piece of mind. In the past I used a software program (Jbid?) that would give you an error if the use/password was incorrect and it gave me piece of mind. <br /> <br />The reason I ask is... <br /> <br />I ran into a problem over the weekend loosing out on an auction. The problem was that I logged into Gixen.com with the right ebay user name but some how my browser had cached a password for the Gixen site that was not the right password for my ebay account. <br /> <br />When the auction ended I found out that I had not placed a bid on the item. I checked the Gixen site and it had a log in error (wrong password). When I re-logged in to Gixen with the right password I found that there was no trace of the auction in my history and it was as if I had logged into Gixen as a completely different user. I was really disappointed that I lost out because of it. <br /> <br />TIA!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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