RE: API to AOL AIM from OS/400

[Bryan Dietz <BDietz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,  I'm not sure how this would hold true for a pure java IM client.
 There must be something else going on.



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Bryan Dietz

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/19/2004 02:24:28 PM:


> I agree. Wish I had time to resolve the [SRV_CLI_VERIFICATION]
> problem that more or less eliminates the possibility of simple
> creating an AS/400 clone. (See, e.g., http://iserverd1.khstu.
> ru/oscar/snac_01_1f.html for a general description.) I'm not sure I
> could resolve it.
>
> Obviously there have been a couple resolutions already though.
>
> In short, this is a request from the AOL server that says "Send me
> the contents of the memory currently loaded at these addresses in
> your system." If what you send isn't what's expected, your
> connection is terminated. The actual request is a random offset into
> AIM.EXE as it's loaded in Windows memory for a random length.
>
> One obvious possibility is simply to store a memory dump of AIM.EXE
> static memory from Windows in an IFS file, then use that to fulfill
> the server request. But there's got to be a better way; I suspect
> that's a copyright violation. Then again, it's not a for-profit copy
> and it hardly harms AOL's business.
>
> Tom Liotta