ICQ Official announcement

[Eion Robb]

Hi again,

I've been working on a new ICQ protocol replacement at
https://github.com/EionRobb/icyque
Currently it can just login and send/receive IM's, but work is ongoing to
try to support other features.

Cheers,
Eion

On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 11:52, Eion Robb <eion at robbmob.com> wrote:

> Hi Eugene,
>
> We were in touch with the ICQ developers in November about their new
> protocol and they were organising some documentation for us about it.  The
> last email we've had is from near the start of Nov though, so I've reached
> back out to them to see if they've got anything available for us yet.
>
> They had assured us that the OSCAR protocol wasn't going away any time
> soon though, but they might have changed their minds about that.
>
> Their new protocol, called WIM, is a JSON-over-HTTP/Websockets protocol
> that I have some packet captures of (and that I intended to write a new
> protocol plugin for) however I was waiting to see if there was any official
> documentation before starting on a reverse-engineered plugin - it's always
> nicer if there's some official docs to try and help make the protocol more
> 'stable' and less likely to break if we implement something that's likely
> to change on the server side.
>
> Cheers,
> Eion
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 10:06, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
>
>> 21.12.2018 3:36, Илья Пирогов wrote:
>>
>> > I think that everything will be the same as it was in the situation
>> with Facebook and Yahoo. Someone will make a new plugin that will need to
>> be downloaded and installed additionally.
>>
>> I asked more specific questions. Basically, I'd like to know if Pidgin is
>> ready or not.
>>
>> Can I recommend Pidging to my ICQ contacts not wishing to use official
>> ICQ client as viable replacement
>> in case their client of choice breaks next week?
>>
>> Or do I need to look for replacement at least for some period of time?
>>
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