RE: API to AOL AIM from OS/400

Does it matter if it's for profit or not?  I don't think so.  It would
still be a copyright violation because it would be an unauthorized
duplication.  As far as legality goes, there's also the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act to consider.  Aren't you copying and/or reverse-engineering
AOL AIM to duplicate it's functionality?  I'm not a lawyer but it sounds
like possible cause for concern.  In a practical sense nobody would
probably care if you wrote it in your garage and only used it yourself but
if it got posted as an open source project it might draw attention.

Dave



                                                                                
                              
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midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  10. Re: API to AOL AIM from OS/400 (rick.baird)
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>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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