Re: Reaching AOL email through mobile web?

On Thu, 31 May 2012 11:22:09 -0400, jeff_wisnia wrote:

> My wife had been accessing her AOL email from her att cellphone by using
> "mobile web" to get on www.aol.com and logging in with her AOL username
> and password. She'd been doing that for about a year.
>
> Beginning sometime yesterday May 30, 2012 she can't do that anymore.
>
> She can still get onto www.aol.com, but after she selects "Mail" and
> enters her AOL user name and password she gets a message telling her
> that the certificate for the web address her phone is trying to reach
> has expired.
>
> So, her only alternative was to use "att mobile email" to reach her AOL
> email, and att will be tacking another $5 a month onto our bill for that
> service.
>
> Am I missing something or is this just another egregious way for att to
> pick up a few more dollars from their customers who want to keep using
> their AOL email accounts?
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Jeff

I've run into "expired certificate" problems before with mail POP3 servers
and with computer-based webmail sites, though never yet with WAP-accessed
email servers. Solution had always been either to install a new certificate
or to accept the validity of a new certificate being proffered -- I'd try
to ask AOL's own internal Help area (accessed from a computer) for advice.

Or, see whether the experience of accessing AOL mail from the cell phone
may become more tolerable if done using Opera Mini, the version of Opera
browser that installs on many GSM handsets having at least a minimal J2ME
(Java 2 Mobile Edition) environment -- using the handset's own WAP browser
(Media Net is it called?) go to URL <http://www.operamini.com> and let the
system there detect the handset and install the version most appropriate to
it. You don't say which handset is involved, but give it a try, at worst
Opera will detect that there's no J2ME environment and will back out with
its regrets :-) .

HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

tlvp wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2012 11:22:09 -0400, jeff_wisnia wrote:
>
>
>>My wife had been accessing her AOL email from her att cellphone by using
>>"mobile web" to get on www.aol.com and logging in with her AOL username
>>and password. She'd been doing that for about a year.
>>
>>Beginning sometime yesterday May 30, 2012 she can't do that anymore.
>>
>>She can still get onto www.aol.com, but after she selects "Mail" and
>>enters her AOL user name and password she gets a message telling her
>>that the certificate for the web address her phone is trying to reach
>>has expired.
>>
>>So, her only alternative was to use "att mobile email" to reach her AOL
>>email, and att will be tacking another $5 a month onto our bill for that
>>service.
>>
>>Am I missing something or is this just another egregious way for att to
>>pick up a few more dollars from their customers who want to keep using
>>their AOL email accounts?
>>
>>Thanks guys,
>>
>>Jeff
>
>
> I've run into "expired certificate" problems before with mail POP3 servers
> and with computer-based webmail sites, though never yet with WAP-accessed
> email servers. Solution had always been either to install a new certificate
> or to accept the validity of a new certificate being proffered -- I'd try
> to ask AOL's own internal Help area (accessed from a computer) for advice.
>
> Or, see whether the experience of accessing AOL mail from the cell phone
> may become more tolerable if done using Opera Mini, the version of Opera
> browser that installs on many GSM handsets having at least a minimal J2ME
> (Java 2 Mobile Edition) environment -- using the handset's own WAP browser
> (Media Net is it called?) go to URL <http://www.operamini.com> and let the
> system there detect the handset and install the version most appropriate to
> it. You don't say which handset is involved, but give it a try, at worst
> Opera will detect that there's no J2ME environment and will back out with
> its regrets :-) .
>
> HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp


Thanks!

Her phone is a Pantech Model P7040P.

The site it's trying to reach is:

https://wap.aol.com/auth/login.do

And the failure message says:

"Certificate was revoked because this site is no longer operational."


I'm going to try contacting AOL and see if they can do anything about
this. As I said before, it worked fine for about a year and quit two
days ago.

Jeff

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At 31 May 2012 20:37:08 -0400 jeff_wisnia wrote:

> Her phone is a Pantech Model P7040P.
>
> The site it's trying to reach is:
>
> https://wap.aol.com/auth/login.do
>
> And the failure message says:
>
> "Certificate was revoked because this site is no longer operational."

Try m.aol.com instead. That's the mobile-formatted site I use, and it
still works. I got an error message trying the one you linked.


> I'm going to try contacting AOL and see if they can do anything about
> this. As I said before, it worked fine for about a year and quit two
> days ago.

True WAP sites are disappearing. The mobile world has moved on to XHTML,
which works on most mobile browsers. You'd think AOL would be smart
enough to redirect obsolete links, but then again...

On Thu, 31 May 2012 20:37:08 -0400, jeff_wisnia wrote:

> Her phone is a Pantech Model P7040P.
> ... The site it's trying to reach is:
> https://wap.aol.com/auth/login.do
> And the failure message says:
>
> "Certificate was revoked because this site is no longer operational."

Oh :-) ! Not a failed certificate problem, but a nonexistent site problem.
No amount of certificate-store massaging will bring that site back to life.

> I'm going to try contacting AOL and see if they can do anything about
> this. As I said before, it worked fine for about a year and quit two
> days ago.

When contacting AOL, just ask them what they'd recommend to use as address
in place of the discontinued one you'd been using (as reproduced above) --
they're sure not gonna try to "do anything" to bring it back to life :-) .

Or, easier, just try the mobile site <m.aol.com> Todd A. suggests :-) .

> Jeff

HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.