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Short description
OSCAR (AIM/ICQ)
Long description
Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime, an instant messaging used by
AOL's instant messaging network (AIM). The protocol versions 7, 8 and 9
of the ICQ IM network are also instances of the OSCAR protocol.
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OSCAR is a binary proprietary protocol. Since there is no official documentation,
clients that connect to AIM or ICQ have to rely on information that has
been reverse-engineered.
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Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSCAR_protocol
Link: http://www.oilcan.org/oscar/