Recent Posts by Exolon

Apr 29, 2012

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Snipes failing on 2.5-0-g8f10beb

I just lost an auction (someone got the item I wanted for £1.04, argh) with the same message.

Fearing this very outcome, I placed the minimum bid (99p) on the item and entered a higher snipe. The error log produced (item name truncated for size):

bq.
Sun Apr 29 20:27:47 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.com is 4128
Sun Apr 29 20:27:48 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.co.uk is 4688
Sun Apr 29 20:28:09 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.com is 3317
Sun Apr 29 20:28:10 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.co.uk is 3858
Sun Apr 29 20:31:09 BST 2012: 170829324019 (Yu-Gi-Oh…) – Preparing snipe.
Sun Apr 29 20:33:09 BST 2012: 170829324019 (Yu-Gi-Oh…) – Firing actual snipe.
Sun Apr 29 20:33:10 BST 2012: 170829324019 (Yu-Gi-Oh…) – Unknown error sniping on Yu-Gi-Oh… (170829324019)

Apr 24, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Where to find information about scripting Jbw?

Glad to find some information on this – I wondered what was happening when trying to access the scripting manager caused no visible effects!

Regarding the impalatable size of the scripting-enabled-jruby-bundled version of JBW, why not simply offer two builds on the main download page – it sounds like the scriptable version could be built with a quick ant task, or whatever build system you’re using?

Apr 9, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Odd but worrying bug

I think this came up recently in another subforum – if it’s the same issue, then the £1 snipe isn’t real. JBidWatcher thinks you’ve already made a bid of £1 manually. It won’t actually snipe for that amount afaik.

Mar 26, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Development / multisnipe with different amounts

Wow, silly of me not to realise that before… thanks for the clarification! :)

Mar 14, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Development / multisnipe with different amounts

Hi,

It seems that multisnipes can only be performed by selecting the desired items and setting a multisnipe for one price.

However, I often want to pick any one (but only one) of a number of slightly different items each of which is worth a different price.
For example, I’m trying to buy a vacuum cleaner at the moment, and there’s quite a variance in values so the current multisnipe model isn’t flexible enough. Of the 3 or so suitable items per day I can thus currently only single snipe one item.

Wouldn’t it be more flexible and still easy to use if we could set normal snipes on individual items, then add them to a multisnipe ‘group’ with a nametag (e.g. “hoover” or “tv”)?
The current system could still be the default, for example:
1. Add 3 items and set individual snipes
2. Select them and go to the ‘multi’ dialogue
3. A radio button selects between minimum bid (default, as current behaviour) and “use individual snipe amounts”
4. The colour selection dialogue also gets an optional category tag (which we set to “tv” or whatever we’re buying, or it gets assigned an incrementing number value maybe) to help differentiate between multisnipe groups since the snipe amount can differ now.

Then later…
5. Add another new item, set a snipe
6. Add it to the “tv” multisnipe group in some context menu which lists all existing multisnipe groups (when all items in a multisnipe group have finished, the group is deleted from the list).

Any thoughts on this scheme? I’d be willing to look at the code since it’s probably a big change to the existing model… but I think it’d make JBidWatcher much more flexible and powerful!

p.s. apologies if this has been brought up recently – I had a quick search and didn’t see anything :)

Mar 5, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Canceling Snipe/Max Bid Sets to $1.00

FYI, I’m seeing max bids apparently set to £1, but the snipes seem to be working.

Feb 28, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / communication error talking to server

Probably not an OS X problem because it works ok for me on 10.5.6, aside from an intermittent network problem (but it seems fine right now). I’m using ebay.ie though, so maybe there’s something different happening on ebay.de now that JBidwatcher can’t parse?

Feb 24, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "Couldn't sign in! Read timed out" (2.0.1-825)

Hi Morgan,

I very much doubt it – I disabled PeerGuardian (which I use from time to time) and the OS X firewall has never been enabled on this machine. Unfortunately when JBidWatcher catches/throws the related exceptions, it doesn’t seem to print out what host and port it was trying to connect to – maybe I can add some debug code to find out and then manually test it (i.e. via telnet or nmap).

Thanks,
Oisín

Feb 24, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "Couldn't sign in! Read timed out" (2.0.1-825)

It’s fine at the moment for some reason. So maybe it is the timeout…

Feb 23, 2009

Exolon 10 post(s)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "Couldn't sign in! Read timed out" (2.0.1-825)

Hi, I’m having problems connecting to eBay… when I start JBidWatcher or tell it to refresh the eBay session, it first tells me the following (in the activity log window):


Mon Feb 23 22:31:50 GMT 2009: Getting the sign in cookie.
Mon Feb 23 22:31:51 GMT 2009: Successfully synchronized time with ebay.
Mon Feb 23 22:31:51 GMT 2009: Server time is now: Mon Feb 23 22:31:50 GMT 2009
Mon Feb 23 22:31:53 GMT 2009: Done getting the sign in cookie.
Mon Feb 23 22:31:53 GMT 2009: Getting the sign in cookie.

Then in the error log window:


Mon Feb 23 22:31:44 GMT 2009: JBidwatcher 2.0.1-825
Mon Feb 23 22:31:44 GMT 2009: Apple Inc. Java, version 1.5.0_16 on Mac OS X
Mon Feb 23 22:31:46 GMT 2009: Error setting up scripting: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jruby/runtime/builtin/IRubyObject
Mon Feb 23 22:31:47 GMT 2009: Loading listings from the database (8/17/17 entries, 17/17 auctions)
Mon Feb 23 22:31:47 GMT 2009: Done with the initial load (got 8 active entries)
Mon Feb 23 22:32:08 GMT 2009: Couldn't sign in!
Read timed out
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
[snipping verbose backtrace]
    at sun.net.www. protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:234)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.Http.receiveData(Http.java:163)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.Http.receivePage(Http.java:185)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:197)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:166)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getNecessaryCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:177)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayServer.forceLogin(ebayServer.java:279)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayServer.messageAction(ebayServer.java:247)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.queue.PlainMessageQueue.run(PlainMessageQueue.java:55)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(InputRecord.java:293)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.read(InputRecord.java:331)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:723)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1030)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1057)
    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1041)
    at sun.net.www. protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:402)
    at sun.net.www. protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:166)
    at sun.net.www. protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:934)
    at sun.net.www. protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderFieldKey(HttpURLConnection.java:1976)
    at sun.net.www. protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getHeaderFieldKey(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:287)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.handleRedirect(CookieJar.java:155)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.internal_connect(CookieJar.java:120)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.connect(CookieJar.java:107)
    at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.connect(CookieJar.java:99)
    at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:191)

This started happening in the last build I tried, so it’s not a new thing. Is it an issue on my end or…? I can log into eBay via my browser and it seems ok – trying the “test login” also reports a successful login. Note that I’m using ebay.ie, but it’s the same if switch to .com.

Any thoughts? Can I increase the read timeout in case it’s simply too low?

Apr 29, 2012 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Snipes failing on 2.5-0-g8f10beb I just lost an auction (someone got the item I wanted for £1.04, argh) with the same message. Fearing this very outcome, I placed the minimum bid (99p) on the item and entered a higher snipe. The error log produced (item name truncated for size): bq. Sun Apr 29 20:27:47 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.com is 4128 Sun Apr 29 20:27:48 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.co.uk is 4688 Sun Apr 29 20:28:09 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.com is 3317 Sun Apr 29 20:28:10 BST 2012: Time delta with ebay.co.uk is 3858 Sun Apr 29 20:31:09 BST 2012: 170829324019 (Yu-Gi-Oh…) – Preparing snipe. Sun Apr 29 20:33:09 BST 2012: 170829324019 (Yu-Gi-Oh…) – Firing actual snipe. Sun Apr 29 20:33:10 BST 2012: 170829324019 (Yu-Gi-Oh…) – Unknown error sniping on Yu-Gi-Oh… (170829324019)

Apr 24, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Where to find information about scripting Jbw? Glad to find some information on this – I wondered what was happening when trying to access the scripting manager caused no visible effects! Regarding the impalatable size of the scripting-enabled-jruby-bundled version of JBW, why not simply offer two builds on the main download page – it sounds like the scriptable version could be built with a quick ant task, or whatever build system you’re using?

Apr 9, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Odd but worrying bug I think this came up recently in another subforum – if it’s the same issue, then the £1 snipe isn’t real. JBidWatcher thinks you’ve already made a bid of £1 manually. It won’t actually snipe for that amount afaik.

Mar 26, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Development / multisnipe with different amounts Wow, silly of me not to realise that before… thanks for the clarification! :)

Mar 14, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Development / multisnipe with different amounts Hi, It seems that multisnipes can only be performed by selecting the desired items and setting a multisnipe for one price. However, I often want to pick any one (but only one) of a number of slightly different items each of which is worth a different price. For example, I’m trying to buy a vacuum cleaner at the moment, and there’s quite a variance in values so the current multisnipe model isn’t flexible enough. Of the 3 or so suitable items per day I can thus currently only single snipe one item. Wouldn’t it be more flexible and still easy to use if we could set normal snipes on individual items, then add them to a multisnipe ‘group’ with a nametag (e.g. “hoover” or “tv”)? The current system could still be the default, for example: 1. Add 3 items and set individual snipes 2. Select them and go to the ‘multi’ dialogue 3. A radio button selects between minimum bid (default, as current behaviour) and “use individual snipe amounts” 4. The colour selection dialogue also gets an optional category tag (which we set to “tv” or whatever we’re buying, or it gets assigned an incrementing number value maybe) to help differentiate between multisnipe groups since the snipe amount can differ now. Then later… 5. Add another new item, set a snipe 6. Add it to the “tv” multisnipe group in some context menu which lists all existing multisnipe groups (when all items in a multisnipe group have finished, the group is deleted from the list). Any thoughts on this scheme? I’d be willing to look at the code since it’s probably a big change to the existing model… but I think it’d make JBidWatcher much more flexible and powerful! p.s. apologies if this has been brought up recently – I had a quick search and didn’t see anything :)

Mar 5, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / Canceling Snipe/Max Bid Sets to $1.00 FYI, I’m seeing max bids apparently set to £1, but the snipes seem to be working.

Feb 28, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / communication error talking to server Probably not an OS X problem because it works ok for me on 10.5.6, aside from an intermittent network problem (but it seems fine right now). I’m using ebay.ie though, so maybe there’s something different happening on ebay.de now that JBidwatcher can’t parse?

Feb 24, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "Couldn't sign in! Read timed out" (2.0.1-825) Hi Morgan, I very much doubt it – I disabled PeerGuardian (which I use from time to time) and the OS X firewall has never been enabled on this machine. Unfortunately when JBidWatcher catches/throws the related exceptions, it doesn’t seem to print out what host and port it was trying to connect to – maybe I can add some debug code to find out and then manually test it (i.e. via telnet or nmap). Thanks, Oisín

Feb 24, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "Couldn't sign in! Read timed out" (2.0.1-825) It’s fine at the moment for some reason. So maybe it is the timeout…

Feb 23, 2009 Exolon 10 post(s)	Topic: JBidwatcher Help / "Couldn't sign in! Read timed out" (2.0.1-825) Hi, I’m having problems connecting to eBay… when I start JBidWatcher or tell it to refresh the eBay session, it first tells me the following (in the activity log window): `Mon Feb 23 22:31:50 GMT 2009: Getting the sign in cookie. Mon Feb 23 22:31:51 GMT 2009: Successfully synchronized time with ebay. Mon Feb 23 22:31:51 GMT 2009: Server time is now: Mon Feb 23 22:31:50 GMT 2009 Mon Feb 23 22:31:53 GMT 2009: Done getting the sign in cookie. Mon Feb 23 22:31:53 GMT 2009: Getting the sign in cookie.` Then in the error log window: Mon Feb 23 22:31:44 GMT 2009: JBidwatcher 2.0.1-825 Mon Feb 23 22:31:44 GMT 2009: Apple Inc. Java, version 1.5.0_16 on Mac OS X Mon Feb 23 22:31:46 GMT 2009: Error setting up scripting: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jruby/runtime/builtin/IRubyObject Mon Feb 23 22:31:47 GMT 2009: Loading listings from the database (8/17/17 entries, 17/17 auctions) Mon Feb 23 22:31:47 GMT 2009: Done with the initial load (got 8 active entries) Mon Feb 23 22:32:08 GMT 2009: Couldn't sign in! Read timed out at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) [snipping verbose backtrace] at sun.net.www. protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:234) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.Http.receiveData(Http.java:163) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.Http.receivePage(Http.java:185) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:197) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:166) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getNecessaryCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:177) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayServer.forceLogin(ebayServer.java:279) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayServer.messageAction(ebayServer.java:247) at com.jbidwatcher.util.queue.PlainMessageQueue.run(PlainMessageQueue.java:55) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613) Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method) at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.readFully(InputRecord.java:293) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.read(InputRecord.java:331) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:723) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1030) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1057) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1041) at sun.net.www. protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:402) at sun.net.www. protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:166) at sun.net.www. protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:934) at sun.net.www. protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderFieldKey(HttpURLConnection.java:1976) at sun.net.www. protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getHeaderFieldKey(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:287) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.handleRedirect(CookieJar.java:155) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.internal_connect(CookieJar.java:120) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.connect(CookieJar.java:107) at com.jbidwatcher.util.http.CookieJar.connect(CookieJar.java:99) at com.jbidwatcher.auction.server.ebay.ebayLoginManager.getSignInCookie(ebayLoginManager.java:191) This started happening in the last build I tried, so it’s not a new thing. Is it an issue on my end or…? I can log into eBay via my browser and it seems ok – trying the “test login” also reports a successful login. Note that I’m using ebay.ie, but it’s the same if switch to .com. Any thoughts? Can I increase the read timeout in case it’s simply too low?

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