> It states "an open protocol in MSN's case", but is MSN like completely open? > I thought it was a closed protocol, or isn't it completely closed? Or did > the author meant "an open protocol in Jabbers case".
The very first version of the MSN protocol was submitted as a draft protocol to the IETF (I think). There was a public draft of MSNP2. Microsoft never updated the draft with any of their modifications to the protocol as it went from MSNP2 to MSNP10. It eventually expired, and can now only be found in at a few websites. http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn is one. On October 15th 2003 Microsoft discontinued support on it's servers for any protocols less than MSNP8. So the draft is now useless anyway, and MSN is effectively a closed protocol. Critical information to use the servers had to be reversed engineered from the official client (which I'm pretty sure is illegal in the US under DMCA), and Microsoft says that you are not allowed to connect to their servers without a license. So far I don't know of any attempts to block third party software from accessing their network, so they're at least more "open" than AOL/Yahoo in that respect. I maintain the MSN transport, and it supports MSNP8, I've never had to modify it to fix something to Microsoft broke. MSN-t has no license to access the MSN network at the moment, but I've had no trouble connecting using information from the website listed above (which documents MSNP8). Hope that clears it up for you.. --- James _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
