AOL Implements ICQ over Jabber protocol

[Petr Holub]

Nice news from AOL: it tests acess to ICQ network through XMPP
protocol. Machine xmpp.oscar.aol.com runs a server on port 5222 and
username is icqn...@aol.com. It's testing release, but hopefully
it's moving in the reasonable direction :)

http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/AOL_Alpha

Cheers,
Petr

[Chris Carlin]

This is kind of amazing.

I smell Google. About two months ago google began allowing access to AIM
through the web-based gmail chat. Seems reasonable that this is related.

We live in interesting times.

~Chris

[Arnaud Abélard]

We just need to wait for them to enable s2s communications and this will
be the end of the icq & aim transports. Well, if they ever do it.

Good news anyway..

Arnaud

--
Arnaud Abélard (jabber: arnaud....@univ-nantes.fr)
Administrateur Système
Centre de Ressources Informatiques
Université de Nantes
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ne pas utiliser: trap...@univ-nantes.fr

[Will Tatam]

I'm just getting a timeout connecting to xmpp.oscar.aol.com

[Michal Čihař]

Hi

Dne Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:00:23 +0000
Will Tatam <wi...@netmindz.net> napsal(a):

> I'm just getting a timeout connecting to xmpp.oscar.aol.com

You need to select proper IP address to which it resolves, one works
(64.12.91.163) the other one not ;-).

--
Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com

[car...@jlab.org]

Just to clarify, to save people from having to read up on it themselves:

This service is (so far) completely unofficial. Nobody from AOL has
announced the server server; in fact it sounds like someone noticed the
xmpp.oscar.aol.com DNS record and just gave it a shot.

The server(s) itself is flaky, sometimes losing messages or taking a
really long time to respond. Some of its responses are not standards
compliant in the incomplete way, suggesting that AOL was writing its own
and hasn't finished it yet.

Point is, at this point the existence of the server is a great sign, but
it shouldn't be relied upon: it could go away at any moment or lose
messages. Having said that, plenty of people seem to be using the server
just fine.

Have fun,
Chris

[AlexanderS]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:38:33 -0500 (EST)
car...@jlab.org wrote:

>
> Just to clarify, to save people from having to read up on it
> themselves:
>
> This service is (so far) completely unofficial. Nobody from AOL has
> announced the server server; in fact it sounds like someone noticed
> the xmpp.oscar.aol.com DNS record and just gave it a shot.

Hi,
only in german but with usefull information:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/102060/from/rss09

Alex