OSCAR protocol
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OSCAR is AOL's instant messaging and presence protocol standing for Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime. Despite its name, the specifications for the protocol are proprietary. AOL has gone to great lengths to keep competitors, namely Microsoft, Jabber, and Cerulean Studios, from implementing compatible clients for their proprietary messaging system.
Currently OSCAR is in use for AOL's two main instant messenging systems: ICQ and AIM. OSCAR is currently a binary protocol. Large parts of the protocol are nowadays understood after reverse-engineering the protocol, implemented by an ever-increasing number of clients.
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See Also
- Comparison of instant messengers
- TOC protocol, AOL's free yet deprecated messaging protocol
External links
Protocol information
- OSCAR Protocol Terminology (http://www.aim.aol.com/javadev/terminology.html)
- OSCAR (ICQ v7/v8/v9) Documentation (http://www.micq.org/ICQ-OSCAR-Protocol-v7-v8-v9/)
- OSCAR (ICQ v7/v8/v9) Documentation (http://iserverd1.khstu.ru/oscar/)
- OSCAR Documentation Wiki (http://joust.kano.net/wiki/oscar/)
Implementations
- A Free Java Implementation of OSCAR (http://joust.kano.net/joscar/)
- A Free Perl Implementation of OSCAR (http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-OSCAR)
- A Free OCaml Implementation of OSCAR (http://www.cgorski.org/mloscar/)
- A free Delphi Implementation of OSCAR (http://www.ithilien.tk/)
- A free .NET (C#) Implementation of OSCAR (http://www.danielgrunwald.de/coding/NOscar/)
- Adium (http://www.adiumx.com/) (uses LibGAIM for OSCAR implementation)de:OSCAR (Protokoll)