AIM

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AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) is a widely spread Instant Messenger from AOL.

Contents 1 Users: 2 Login Servers: 3 Used ports: 4 Used protocol: 5 Supports proxy: 6 Web clients: 7 Weblinks:=

[edit] Users:

• 63 million

[edit] Login Servers:

• login.oscar.aol.com
• toc.oscar.aol.com
• login.icq.com

[edit] Used ports:

• TCP at any port you choose (in the settings default is 5190)
• for the IM images the software uses port 4443

[edit] Used protocol:

• OSCAR

[edit] Supports proxy:

• http
• https
• Socks 4
• Socks 5

[edit] Web clients:

• The official AIM express (Port 80, dhtml)
• AirAIM
• several third party clients, see Instant Messenger

[edit] Weblinks:=

• Wikipedia on AIM
• Wikipedia on the OSCAR protocol
• BlueTOC, a PHP class to access the AIM network
• PHPTocLib another PHP class to access the AIM network