[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 vitb):

 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?
 >

 I think paulus clarified the upper. I would add, that unfortunately, ICQ
 is still widely used in xUSSR space, hence aol folks decided to make some
 profit on that, in more aggressive way then they used to, sigh.

 I ACK that was having the issue for sure, but next day(after the trick has
 been figured out, heh), ICQ backend logged in without the patch. Several
 regions of .ru and .ua still see the same cr$p message - I assume the
 change has been just rolled back for certain IPs but not for all.

 > 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?

 IMHO actual change is based on code from another client which is pretty
 popular here, + yet another client (QIP) seem to use similar
 solution(fwics from blog entries as those guys havent share the code).
 People around here tend to use most of services ICQ offers, even those
 that aren't supported in pidgin. Hereby, logically the hunks from the
 patch are well-tested already :)

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