RE: API to AOL AIM from OS/400

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  10. Re: API to AOL AIM from OS/400 (rick.baird)
>
>If you get your AIM client up and running, would you be willing to share?
>That would be SO cool to have in my (or anyone's for that matter) toolbox!

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

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