AIM

[CompGeek01]

Hello the 4 of you that read this forum.

I'm looking into creating a simple (I know it's not) program that either adds functionality to an AIM client, or is a seperate program alltogether that just interprets packets and invokes responses.

I'd like to do it in either Perl, C++, or Java...but I have no idea how I would go about starting this. Any ideas on where to get info. There are so many programs out there, I just want to create something more simple than the simplest already out there.

-B

[DocEvi1]

so you're wanting to create something like Trillian? (i.e. something which takes the clients protocols and makes it really easy to send a message?)

[CompGeek01]

Yes, but a heck of a lot more simple. Do you know any win32 open source clients? :t

[DocEvi1]

http://www.digitalpeer.com/mia/overview.asp

google turned up a fiew and this looks half decent.

[fishybawb]

It's all about protocols - the way that these chat clients communicate with their servers. There's some info on OSCAR (AIM's protocol) here:

http://gridley.acns.carleton.edu/~straitm/final/

Just search Google for a bit and you should find more stuff. As long as you've got some idea what you're doing codewise, this should be useful:

http://iserverd1.khstu.ru/oscar/

:t