Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients

NaDrew writes "ZDNet reports that Yahoo is once again blocking connections from Trillian (the alternative multi-protocol client). Yahoo tried this a few times last year and it looks like they're trying again. Cerulean, maker of Trillian, employs some excellent protocol engineers, who I have no doubt will quickly figure out Yahoo's latest obfuscation and release a patch. A quick fix discovered late this evening: Change your Y!IM host from scs.msg.yahoo.com to scs.yahoo.com, port 5050, and it should work. This is on Trillian 0.74H, not Pro."

Comments

I have a better idea...

[Eggplant62]

Why not simply boycott Yahoo's IM product?? If they keep changing the protocol to thwart easy adoption of alternate clients, especially clients that are designed to run on alternative operating systems, why continue to use them??

And another thing...

[LordBodak]

Maybe if Yahoo spent some time developing a better client instead of wasting it trying to keep the third parties off, they wouldn't have this problem to begin with.

Yahoo

[ZeroGuard]

I love Trillian, very very disappointed in yahoo, thought they settled this last year.

Quick turnaround

[Ulrich_Skarsol]

And already fixed. :)

Trillian has already posted a fix

[DrFrasierCrane]

See it here.

Trillian Back Alive

[MrEnigma]

Good news, both Trillian pro and Trillian non-pro have patches out. 2.013 for pro, .74i for non-pro.

Installed it, yahoo connects like a dream.

Patch already out

[smelroy]

There is already a patch out at 11am est. Links here