…is possible starting from today, because AOL seems to have implemented official XMPP<->AIM bridge!
I don’t have the link to the official anouncement (if there is any), and got the good news via Florian Jensen’s Weblog. It’s great to see XMPP getting more and more acknowledge as the de-facto standard IM protocol (today already 4 big “networks” use it – Jabber, GTalk, AIM and ICQ).
Of course, Telepathy users have already had the ability to connect to their AIM/ICQ accounts using great telepathy-haze which provides suppor for a host of protocols using Pidgin’s libpurple.
But, for this excercise, we’ll be using telepathy-gabble and the XMPP protocol. You’ll need a recent telepathy-gabble (0.7.2 is fresh from the oven, 0.7.1 should also work) and loudmouth (1.3.3 is the latest, 1.3.2 will probably work too). If you’re using Ubuntu Hardy Heron or Debian Unstable, you may already have the required packages available in your nearby repos.
The reason newer gabble is needed is because AOL XMPP doesn’t do old-style SSL (on port 5223), but TLS is required. Sadly, they don’t seem to have a valid certificate installed, so for now you’ll have to set ignore-ssl-errors flag (or, alternatively, not set require-encryption because it defaults to not ignoring ssl errors). Also, it seems their server are getting quite overloaded (or are still pretty buggy), so it might take several attempts to successfully establish connection. Also, from my experience, AOL really hates it if you try to reconnect too fast, so keep that in mind.
Params for the connection are:
- server: xmpp.oscar.aol.com
- port: 5222
- username: uin@aol.com (or your aim username, presumably)
Now we wait to see what MSN does. (If you don’t want to wait, there’s telepathy-butterfly and pymsn, and, of course, again telepathy-haze :)
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