unable to connect to aol

[Siddharth Chandra]

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Siddharth Chandra <
siddharthchandra0 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>  On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im>wrote:
>
>>  On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:31, Siddharth Chandra
>> <siddharthchandra0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I am unable to login to AOL. Here is the debug information
>> >
>> > (16:50:03) certificate: Successfully verified certificate for
>> > bos.oscar.aol.com
>> > (16:50:03) oscar: connected to FLAP server of type 0x0002
>> > (16:51:33) oscar: Scheduling destruction of FLAP connection of type
>> 0x0002
>> > (16:51:33) oscar: Destroying oscar connection of type 0x0002.
>> Disconnect
>> > reason is 4
>> > (16:51:33) oscar: Disconnected.  Code is 0x0000 and msg is Remote host
>> > closed connection.
>> > (16:51:33) connection: Connection error on 00A3CC58 (reason: 0
>> description:
>> > Lost connection with ser
>> > ver: Remote host closed connection.)
>> > (16:51:33) account: Disconnecting account siddharthtest (00A3AB30)
>> > (16:51:33) connection: Disconnecting connection 00A3CC58
>> > (16:51:33) oscar: Signed off.
>> > (16:51:33) connection: Destroying connection 00A3CC58.
>>
>> If you're not using 2.7.1, you should upgrade.
>>
>> -D
>>
>  I am using 2.7.1. but I am actually using it on windows. I have compiled
> libpurple's null client using visual c++. I am able to connect to yahoo,
> msn, gtalk, but aim and icq do not work, I am getting the above mentioned
> error when trying to do so. Please let me know the exact procedure to
> connect to aim. Also it would be great if i could get some pointers about
> oscar protocol, like what is disconnect reason 4 etc.
> Thanks,
> Siddharth
>
I finally figured out how to connect it. I had to use some #ifdef _WIN32
from pidgin's eventloops file. These were missing in the nullclient.c
example file. Once they were added it connected to AOL/ICQ.

Thanks for your help,
SIddharth
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