So I run Windows 7 and whenever I try to log in with the prepatched version I get the “Your sign in may be wrong” error even though my password is correct.
From looking at the server’s source code recently, I assume it has to do with the PassportURLs
variable the server returns during authentication (basically, it re-routes the client to another server to actually authenticate on). Initially, it was patched to be Passporturls
because @valtron found it more “easy on the eyes” to him, basically, if I remember correctly, but after a while, it has been changed in the code to be case-sensitive like it was officially. Since the patching instructions and pre-patched binaries still specify PassportURLs
as Passporturls
, however, it basically makes it a pain to login under 5.0 - 7.0. Hopefully time can be taken to address the issue properly and these clients can login without the effort you have to put on it currently.
I got 6.2 to work, fortunately.
I feel like I need to update the current info on here.
One, no @valtron did not screw with the casing of PassportURLs
because he wanted to. It’s basically his HTTP production server (Caddy) screwing with the header names. I made that error because my memory was all fuzzy from the early days of Escargot, and I’m deeply sorry for blaming valtron for something he didn’t do.
More importantly, the reason why MSN 5.0 gets stuck on the spinning Messenger buddies is because of a server bug that’s been fixed in the upcoming server update, but is still present on the live server. I’ve told valtron and made a GitLab issue about it and hopefully it will be addressed soon.
A fix for this 5.0 bug has been rolled out and hopefully it resolves everything.
Well from testing the changes today, they still didn’t fix the problem. However, I found the real reason why (most) people can’t log on with MSN 5.0. Apparently, some rogue users have added a rogue piece of text that is used in MSN’s underlying protocol, and since the server doesn’t encode it in the protocol data, it gets messed up and MSN can’t progress with login and stays stuck on the login screen. So far, I’ve identified one user of doing this under the email collabvm20@gmail.com
, and I advise people to remove them in any version of MSN after 5.0 to at least try to mitigate the issue temporarily. I plan to get a fix for this issue up shortly and hopefully it gets rolled out. Stay safe!
ok i’ll clean out my contact list and tell you which contact was causing the issue
i cleared out my contact list and i still can’t sign in. i can only sign in on the account i created recently
it seems that it stops letting me sign in when i add my main account to the contact list so maybe messenger plus colored names break it?