Topic: JBidwatcher Help / jbidwatcher stopped working

Hi, I had the same problem yesterday where jbidwatcher (1.0 pre 5) was unable to log into my account. Looking at the debug log I got the following error repeatedly:-

Wed Mar 29 23:30:12 BST 2006: Couldn’t sign in!
java.io.IOException: Failed eBay security check (captcha). at ebayServer.getSignInCookie(ebayServer.java:1441) at ebayServer.getSignInCookie(ebayServer.java:1490) at ebayServer.getNecessaryCookie(ebayServer.java:1304) at ebayServer.messageAction(ebayServer.java:741) at PlainMessageQueue.run(PlainMessageQueue.java:70) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Wed Mar 29 23:30:12 BST 2006: MQ_: Postponing Message: NOTIFY eBay’s security monitoring has been triggered, and temporarily requires human intervention to log in. JBidwatcher will not be able to log in (including bids, snipes, and retrieving My eBay items) until this is fixed.

Interesting I notice that when trying to log in using a browser during this time, once the username/password was entered, I then got an additional page with a random sequence of characters over textured background and was prompted to enter the characters before the login was successful. This evening this page is no longer there. Could this be due to ebay making some changes?

Chris