The LiveHTTPHeaders trace is pretty monstrous. I'll post the first couple dozen lines, which is where it seems the problem is. The scene: Firefox 3.6.6, running under Windows 7. I went to eBay's link generator tool and generated a search results link for a sony digital camera. Here's the link, with my campid redacted: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574629033&toolid=10001&campid=1234567890&customid=test&icep_uq=sony+digital+camera&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg 1. Clear all cookies, then paste link into address bar: The link worked. 2. Sign into eBay, then paste link into address bar: Link does NOT work. 3. Sign out of eBay, but do not clear cookes. Link does NOT work. 4. After signing out, clear cookies again. Link WORKS. Same thing happens if I do a link for a specific item number, or for a category, and whether or not I use a keyword/category combination. Same thing happens with the RSS feed. Links that come back from the API work. They use the format where the link goes to rover.ebay, with the specifics in the &mpre= parameter. But the links that go to rover without &mpre=, using the various icep_ parameters, do NOT work if you're signed in, or if you have signed out but have not cleared your cookies. This behavior is consistent in several other browsers, as well.

-- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Signed in to eBay. Link goes to home page instead of to search results page. (I had to add some random line breaks in the cookies, because the forum said it contained words that were too long.)

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574629033
&toolid=10001&campid=1234567890&customid=test&icep_uq=sony+digital+camera
&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=
&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg

GET /rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574629033&toolid=10001
&campid=1234567890&customid=test&icep_uq=sony+digital+camera&icep_sellerId=
&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=
&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099
&mtid=824&kw=lg HTTP/1.1
Host: rover.ebay.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.6) Gecko/20100625 Firefox/3.6.6
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: npii=btpim/14c31f1f8^cguid/a2fc95111290a0aad2e0e5
b0fe1fc0694e131e70
^tguid/a2fc95111290a0aad2
e0e5b0fe1fc06a4e131e70^trm/svid%3D851650491604e131e70^;
ds2=alss/0.sony%2Bdigital%2Bcamera4c333c70^;
ebay=%5Ea2p%3D4c31f1e990000000000.%5EsfLMD%3D12731
66257%5Esbf3D%23c0000000a0000100004%5Ecos%3D3%5Ecv%
3D15555%5Esin%3Din%5Ejs%3D1%5Ewl%3D120534434116.1503
42321838.160355916863.170375033743.170398003620.18011
7252452.180350407722.180399801106.180504611710.20038931
7478.250595937988.290319396577.290378375687.310123311
162.310172866840.310201957493.310209587787.310211785744.
350332274475.350356753748.370217117529.380154537701.
3801554374
01.390105348033.
%5Epsi%3DA%2FbwvZSw*%5E; dp1=bhps/50000025234c3b2570
^spref/04ff451f0^pcid/17091548154e131e70
^uss/QpqHDTBABAxGAAA4c3f19f0
^a1p/04c333c70^fm/3.2.24c5977dc^mpc/0%7C04c3f19f0^pbf/%238040
0000044e131e70
^tzo/f04ff451f1^u1p/b
G9sYnVk4e131e70^idm/14c333c29^u1f/redactedmyfirstname4e131e70^; ns1=BAQAAASmGJyI5AAaAANgAZE4THnBmMDA4YzkyfDYwMV
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WeFGs85+yh6S36rRa4lbhlxjd8;

cssg=a2fc95541290a041b8152205fff3bba8;
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gAKTDM8cHRlc3RDb29raWUAAwABTDM8cDcA9AAiTD
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Yng9MSZfdWRsbz0mX3VkaGk9Jl9zb3A9MTJ
CoHr/p/UIc4U2wuawDsgLRew0kA**;
nonsession=BAQAAASmGJyI5AAaAA
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lucky9=4512543;
ssg=uld%2F1278339831215%5E;
cid=9xXRT3lzfXkrwvDe%231709154815;
ds1=ats/1278339804165;
secses=BAQAAASmGJyI5AAaAAUsAF04THnA0Yz
MxZWFmMC4wLjEuNC45NS4xLjAuM1ayG0sj+54L0kHbGz5IuOrhAA9e;
shs=BAQAAASmGJyI5AAaAAVUADkw7JVwxMjI1MzcwOTAwMD
YsMdtc6yzkFIlzfG9HQdKjFoabGWCu

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
RlogId: p4n%60rujfudlwc%3D9un*u6ubn543-129a2fdd8a8
Set-Cookie: npii=btpim/14c31f200^cguid/a2fc9511
1290a0aad2e0e5b0fe1fc0694e131e78
^tguid/a2fc95111290a0aad2e0e5b0fe1fc06a4e131e78
^trm/svid%3D851650491604e131e78^;
Domain=.ebay.com; Expires=Tue, 05-Jul-2011 14:23:52 GMT; Path=/
P3P: policyref="/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NOI CURa ADMa DEVa PSDo PSAa OUR SAMo IND UNI COM NAV INT STA DEM PRE"
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: no-cache
Location: http://www.ebay.com
Content-Length: 0
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:23:51 GMT

-- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

I built a page with links to the different headers, working and non working here eBay EPN Rover link problem

socialbiker posted that he submitted and they are looking.

If I look at my graph for entries on the dashboard, it looks like 2% of visitors to my sites are being affected by this.

It seems to be hit or miss as to who they work for or don't.

Since things rarely stop working for no reason, they probably introduced another change to something that was not fully tested again.

Don't worry though, only a small subset of publishers are being affected by it

The response I had only really said they were going to write a blog post about it. There was no confirmation that ePN acknowledge that they have an issue nor whether they had any plans to address the issue; only write a blog post about it.

The problem seems to have been corrected. I just built a link using Item ID, tested the link while signed into eBay, at the link brought me to the correct item, rather than the eBay home page.

I'm having this issue today.  Rover links aren't working in Firefox.  Working fine in IE.

 

Anyone have an answer here???

 

 

FF 14.0 fine

FF 12.0 fine

 

Post a sample link

 

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