AIM no longer working

[Bill MacAllister]

Disable "Use clientlogin".

Accounts->Manage Accounts->select AIM account->Advanced, the uncheck the box.

Bill

--On Friday, February 19, 2010 08:35:52 PM -0500 Paul <plederbe at optonline.net> wrote:

> I have that too so I am now using Trillian till Pidgin works. I use Windows and i do connect to Yahoo yet i can't view yahoo buddy lists.
>
> On 2/19/2010 8:32 PM, Keith Winter wrote:
>> Lately, Pidgin is unable to log into AIM. Is this a known issue? I get
>> the following error from the debug window:
>> (17:28:23) *oscar:* startOSCARSession response statusCode was 400:
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <response
>> xmlns="http://developer.aim.com/xsd/aim.xsd"><statusCode>400</statusCode><statusText>useTLS=1
>> is not allowed for non secure
>> requests.</statusText><data><ts>1266629302</ts><upgradeData></upgradeData><betaData></betaData></data></response>
>> (17:28:23) *connection:* Connection error on 019D0118 (reason: 16
>> description: Received unexpected response from
>> http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession: useTLS=1 is not
>> allowed for non secure requests.)
>> (17:28:24) *account:* Disconnecting account xxxxxxxx (00C95FF8)
>> (17:28:24) *connection:* Disconnecting connection 019D0118
>> (17:28:24) *oscar:* Signed off.
>>
>>
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Bill MacAllister, System Software Programmer
Unix Systems Group, Stanford University