[Pidgin] #8198: Pidgin client blocked by AOL (ICQ)

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#8198: Pidgin client blocked by AOL (ICQ)
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 Reporter:  init    |        Owner:  MarkDoliner
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new        
Milestone:          |    Component:  ICQ        
  Version:  2.5.4   |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by eveel):

 Replying to [comment:78 deryni]:
 > The question isn't whether the patch fixes the problem, the question is
 what the actual problem is, what this fix is doing, and whether it is the
 correct fix.
 >
 >  * Does anyone here actually know what these magic values are?
 >  * Do we know where they came from?
 >  * Do we know what they are doing?
 >  * Do we know what happened to cause this in the first place?
 >  * Do we know why only Russia and the Ukraine have this problem?
 >  * Do we know why some people have seemed to claim that they started
 working again without the patch?
 >
 > Without knowing a number of those things we can't (safely and
 comfortably) make such a change.
 >
 > A few more questions:
 >  * Has anyone *not* experiencing this problem tried the change to verify
 that it doesn't break anything?
 >  * Have people made sure this change doesn't break any features of ICQ?
 Look at http://persei.miranda.im/files/icq_ru.png
 http://persei.miranda.im/files/icq.png
 Also we have no another reports, just from some CIS countries (Russia and
 Ukraine).

 This seqnum should be a random number (according to OSCAR spec), but now
 it's not.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8198#comment:81>
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