Re: [Pengfork-devel] AOL protocol knowledge

[Nicolas Burrus]

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 14:36, Jean-Charles Salzeber wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 18:14, Nicolas Burrus wrote:
> > I'm quite interested in studing AOL 7.0 protocol, I'll install vmware and
> > co as soon as I will be freed from my exams ...
> >
> > I think we should focus on v7.0 for mail, etc ... because it is the
> > future, I don't think it's very useful to continue learning an out of
> > date protocol, even if it is easier to improve a known one than
> > discovering a new one !
> >
> > Talking about that, it would be great to have formal documents with AOL
> > protocols, it can help understanding the code and improving it, and can
> > help other projects.
>
> Look at http://www.aol-files.com they have many documents maybe
> somewhat illegals, but I don't know if there is an issue to read this
> documents for extending pengfork, I'm not a lawyer. :)

Ok, thanks, I'll check it. I don't know if it is legal to do reverse 
engeneering on AOL protocol.

> In fact even on AOL 7 they use a protocol named FDO. I'm not expecting
> so many changes on the protocol. I believe it's just another type of
> encapsulation, specially for IP, but I don't think they change all their
> software/hardware for a new version.

We'll see :)

> So perhaps it's better to understand how they do this with the old
> protocol, and then watch the difference with the new.
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't say more until we have looking a bit more
> on the protocol they use.

Ok, hope I'll have time soon, I'm quite impatient ! :)

> PS: good luck for your exams!

Thanks :)

-- 
Nicolas