Yahoo Mail suddenly broken (Bad Gateway)

appleton1 · Thread Author #1 01-20-2012, 07:04 AM

I have been accessing Yahoo Mail from my Blackberry for the last couple of years without a problem, Then a week ago, when I go to mail.yahoo.com I get a Error 502 Bad Gateway on my Blackberry.

When I then click on Details it displays a web page which says:

Error.
The requested URL could not be retrieved.
The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: htp://mlogin.yahoo.com/wlogin/user?
Zero Sized Reply.
Generated by ... pmds143 (squid/3.1.16)

When I look at the properties of this web page its address is htp://mlogin.yahoo.com/w/login/user?_done=widget%3Aygo-mail%2Fhome.bp&.tsrc=yahoo&.intl=US&.lang=en&_http Host=m.yahoo.com

So this error page is obviously being sent by Yahoo's own servers.

So it seems highly likely that Yahoo changed something about a week ago which is preventing access from my Blackberry.

Is anyone experiencing a similar problem, and is there a way around it as I just can't use yahoo mail at all away from my PC.

All other web sites seem to be working OK.

(P.S. I've had to replace http with htp in the above because the forum seems to be blocking use of URLs)