Take a look at Net::AIM. It's very good; I use it for my tv-reminder aimbot, TallGermanJoeBot.
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Net::AIM will allow you to sign onto the AIM network, but you'd still lack the ability to check AOL profiles. You would, however, be able to get AIM profiles (the free ad-supported users). Still useful.
Thanks batkins, now I have a weekend project! I'll be sure to post whatever I come with, provided it works. ;)
John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com
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It shouldn't be too difficult to do. I've known people who have previously reverse-engeneered the AOL IP-encapsulation protocol, including the setup part. (It's probably become more complicated since then, and I'm not sure I could dig up the work if I tried, but still, not that hard.)
OTOH, I don't have an AOL account, and even if I did, I wouldn't piss off a huge corporation that had my contact info, my credit card, and with whom I'd signed a contract... at least not over somthing as minor as AIM users not being able to read AOL profiles.
(BTW, I'd set up my account to do AOL-over-IP (which I think they call bring-your-own-access, and then capture traffic going into their servers while looking at some profiles. Also note that the protocol is based on window-painting -- that is, every widget is described in terms of it's location, color, etc -- there isn't just a simple, meanigfull, version of the profile data sent. This means that it'll be very britile.)
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I just came across http://status.webhop.net/, a "online status indicator" service. It's written in Java, but I think I might take a look to see how it works (and see if I can replicate it in Perl).
John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com
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