AIM Secure Login

Ryan Govostes rgovostes at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 07:08:11 UTC 2010


I noticed today that I can't connect to AOL's secure login server
(slogin.oscar.aol.com) but the unsecured server (login.oscar.aol.com)
works fine.

I get:

Received unexpected response from
http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession

It looks like the response the server is sending is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response
xmlns="http://developer.aim.com/xsd/aim.xsd"><statusCode>400</statusCode><statusText>useTLS=1
is not allowed for non secure
requests.</statusText><data><ts>1263366228</ts><upgradeData></upgradeData><betaData></betaData></data></response>

I interpret this as a complaint that we're asking for a secure
connection but using HTTP rather than HTTPS.

I figure this is handled in libpurple so I'll report this there
tomorrow. Either way we'll need to update something on our end.

-- Ryan




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