The OSCAR protocol documentation project

This is the OSCAR documentation project, where KeithLea, DavidWalluck, and Hoov (and anyone else who wants to ContributeToOscarDocWiki) plan to write an extensive set of documentation for using AOL Instant Messenger's OSCAR protocol (also known as AIM/OSCAR). There are a set of OscarDocWikiStandards that are followed in this wiki.

Covered topics

Topics we want to document: (pages starting with a ? have not been written yet)

• AimHistory
• OscarProtocol
• CoreProtocol
• OscarConnections
• FlapConnection
• SnacCommand
• DataRepresentation
• CoreStructures
• BasicProtocolActions
• InitialAuthentication
• LoggingIn
• InstantMessages
• InterClientBasicMsg
• WarningBuddies
• TypingNotification
• IcbmParameterInfo
• Locate
• GetDirectoryInfo
• GetProfile
• GetAwayMessage
• ServerStoredInfo
• LinkedScreenNames
• ActivateSsiSnac
• CreateSsiItemsSnac
• DeleteSsiItemsSnac
• UpdateSsiItemsSnac
• SsiAckSnac
• SsiDataCheckSnac
• SsiDataRequestSnac
• SsiDataSnac
• SsiRightsRequestSnac
• SsiRightsSnac
• SsiUnchangedSnac
• BuddyList
• AdvancedProtocolActions
• RateLimiting
• AdvancedBuddyList
• ModifyingBuddyList
• BuddyListValidity
• ChatRooms
• BuddyIconServer
• RendezvousProtocol
• FileTransfer
• DirectIm
• ChatInvitations
• GetFile
• OldBuddyIconTransfer
• AddIns
• SendBuddyList
• VoiceChat
• VideoChat
• SecureIm
• TrillianSecureIm
• AimSecureIm
• SecureInstantMessages
• SecureDirectConnections
• SecureChatRooms
• MiscProtocolActions
• InviteaFriend
• AolMailCheck
• AccountAdmin
• AimExpressions
• PopupMessages
• NonOscarFeatures

Links

• OtherOscarDocumentation
• OscarSoftware