Errors in Pidgin 2.8

[Tres Finocchiaro]

@Bill,

It sounds like something is preventing a good encrypted channel from
opening between your clients and AOL.  This can be caused by a few things,
namely 1. A change in AOLs protocol.  2.  A change in network settings on
your side.  3.  An expired certificate.

In the case of this specific error, it has roots that go back as far as 5
years.

https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11142

Some recommendations are to temporarily disable encryption (one comment
suggests the unencrypted password is sent as MD5 and never sent as clear
text, I cannot confirm this).

I was able to reproduce your error, but my network administrator may be
restricting this traffic so I am not a good use case.  Perhaps someone else
can reproduce this as well.

-Tres

- Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Dale, Bill <bill.dale at dhhs.nc.gov> wrote:

>  To whom it may concern,
>
>
>
> The entire domain is recivieing the below error.   This started yesterday
> at noon.   Any advise?
>
>
>
> “Received unexpected response from
> https://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession: useTLS=1 is not allowed
> for non secure requests.”
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Bill Dale
>
> Technology Analyst, Western Region
>
> Department of Health & Human Services
>
> Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
>
> 200 Enola Road
>
> Morganton, NC  28655
>
> 828-433-2201 - Phone
>
> bill.dale at dhhs.nc.gov
>
> http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dvrs
>
> 919-855-3555 - VR Computer Help Desk
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Email correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North
> Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an
> authorized State official. Unauthorized disclosure of juvenile, health,
> legally privileged, or otherwise confidential information, including
> confidential information relating to an ongoing State procurement effort,
> is prohibited by law. If you have received this email in error, please
> notify the sender immediately and delete all records of this email.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Support at pidgin.im mailing list
> Want to unsubscribe?  Use this link:
> https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/attachments/20141028/3ad16602/attachment.html>