I have been trying to figure out a way to log into yahoo/hotmail mail accounts. I have been searching in newsgroups, on this site and on "script-sites" for some info on how to accomplish this. I've seen someone mentioning using HTTP::Cookies, but I can't understand how this is supposed to work on sites like hotmail and yahoo, where we can't get a login url, like

http://username:pw@somesite.com

If we don't have such a login url, how are we going to store the cookie which is received in the login process?

Is the only way to accomplish this task to dissect the login form and try to generate similar input as these sites' login-script generates? Doesn't seem easy with this MD5-javascript stuff...?

Does anyone know how to do this?

Regards,
geekwannabe

In reply to Yahoo_Hotmail login (again) by Anonymous Monk

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