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Thread ID: 40781 2003-12-18 04:33:00 Hotmail "lite" sign-in agent (30) Press F1
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201384 2003-12-18 04:33:00 Background: I started thinking about creating a so-called "lite" version of Hotmail's sign-in page, with just the form needed to sign in (same action, submit method, input types, names, etc), seeing as their one goes through multiple unneccessary page redirections, setting cookies, and loading images, etc.

First time I tried it, instead of having the form submit to login.passport.com I made it submit to plain old login.passport.com

Didn't work, but I did end up signed into the Passport Services options page (edit your profile, change directory settings, that sort of stuff). So I tried submitting to login.passport.com instead.

To cut a long story short, trying it with id=2&svc=mail redirected me to login.passport.net follows all the long, unneccessary crap that Microsoft uses. After this, even reverting to the plain old login.passport.com redirected me to the page telling me that I had disabled cookies.

Which I haven't, of course. I was trying all this in Firebird, and after giving up tried it in Internet Explorer (after reconnecting to the internet, in the remote chance Hotmail had already caught onto what I was trying and made it so it buggered up from my IP or even cared that I was trying this), but got the same result.

Anyone think it's worth going ahead with this attempt, or can anyone even explain how Hotmail got the idea I had cookies disabled, or how Hotmail works? They've over-complicated it; I would've been able to do this easily when they had the old white-background sign in. 		agent (30)
201385 2003-12-18 04:36:00 Big woops. Silly me, I thought for a moment that bold would work within a string that would be converted to a URL. I also mixed up forum tags with HTML tags. And that final URL should end with post.srf, not post.src. agent (30)
201386 2003-12-18 04:49:00 ??:|?


r u saying u r havin trouble signin in to hotmail?




if so try www.hotmail.com 		Megaman (344)
201387 2003-12-18 06:33:00 NZCity (home.nzcity.co.nz/) does exactly what you want. They submit the form to https:

You'll find what you need amongst the following code:
<form TARGET="_top" name="hotmail_com" action="loginnet.passport.com METHOD="post">
<tr>
<td colspan=2><input type="hidden" name="login"><input type="hidden" Name="domain" Value="hotmail.com"><input type="hidden" name="passwd"><input type="hidden" name="sec"><input type="hidden" name="mspp_shared">
<input type="hidden" name="6c6f7264" value="home.nzcity.co.nz">/n.gif

<font face="arial,helvetica" size=1>Login Name:
</font></td>
<td colspan=2>/n.gif
<font face="arial,helvetica" size=1>Password:
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td><input type=text name=login accesskey="l" value="" size=15 class=hotmail></td>
<td>/n.gif</td>
<td><input type=password name=passwd accesskey="p" size=15 class=hotmail></td>
<td width=30 align="center"><input TYPE="image" id="submit1" name="enter" value="Sign in" src="/pimages/but-mailgo.gif" width=21 height=19 border=0></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
<td valign="bottom" align="right">/pimages/img-letter.gif</td>
</tr>
</table></center></form>

You'll need to remove some of the spaces that the forum software has inserted for it to work. 		stevie_boy (478)
201388 2003-12-18 20:29:00 Well this sucks now... even logging into Hotmail the normal way returns that I've got cookies disabled.

But thanks for that info stevie_boy. 		agent (30)
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