AOL Instant Messaging - OSCAR protocol

By: Chris Grier (grier at uiuc dot edu), May 2006

Outline

What is OSCAR
Clients and Libraries that support OSCAR
Using libfaim to access the AIM network
More recent versions of libfaim
References

What is OSCAR?

Background / history, cite wikipedia. make this part short.

Clients and Libraries

Gaim, Adium use OSCAR as well as AIM and pretty much any other recent client
TOC is the alternative, whats the difference?
Libraries: libfaim, libgaim

Using libgaim

Recent changes

what sre some of the 'fixme' in the libgaim code?
are there new changes taht the library doesnt know how to handle yet?

References

http://zigamorph.net/libfaim/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol