Could aMSN work with escargot?

SevenTheGamingKitty · April 5, 2025, 5:58am

The only real topic i could find for this was ancient, and used an older link for escargot’s servers.
Is this still possible?

yellows111 · April 5, 2025, 11:24am

Starting of, you’d want to replace login.live.com with your preferred server’s Passport/Login domain:

github.com/tomhennigan/amsn

amsn/auth.tcl

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          			}

          		}

          	}

          	

          	method Authenticate { callbk } {

          		if {$soap_req != "" } {

          			$soap_req destroy

          			set soap_req ""

          		}

          		set soap_req [SOAPRequest create %AUTO% \

          				  -url "https://login.live.com/RST.srf" \

          				  -xml [$self getSSOXml] \

          				  -callback [list $self AuthenticateCallback $callbk]]

          		$soap_req SendSOAPRequest

          	}

          	

          	method getSSOXml { args } {

          

          		set xml {<Envelope xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:wsse="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/06/secext" xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.0:assertion" xmlns:wsp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/12/policy" xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" xmlns:wsa="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/03/addressing" xmlns:wssc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/04/sc" xmlns:wst="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/04/trust">}

          

          		append xml {<Header>}

Then change messenger.hotmail.com and gateway.messenger.hotmail.com with their respective Dispatch Server and Gateway Service domain names:

github.com/tomhennigan/amsn

amsn/config.tcl

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          		::config::setKey autoconnect 0			;#Automatically connect when amsn starts
          		::config::setKey libtls_temp ""			;#TLS
          		::config::setKey lineflushlog 1			;#Flush log files after each line
          		::config::setKey autocheckver 1			;#Automatically check for newer versions on startup
          		::config::setKey truncatenames 1		;#Truncate nicknames longer than window width in windows' title
          		::config::setKey truncatenicks 0		;#Truncate nicknames longer than window width in chat windows
          		::config::setKey keepalive 1				;#Keep alive connection (ping every minute)
          		::config::setKey showtimestamps 1		;#Show timestamps on messages ("Yes" by default)
          		::config::setKey leftdelimiter \[		;#Left Timestamps' delimiter  '[' by default
          		::config::setKey rightdelimiter \]		;#Right Timestamps' delimiter ']' by default
          		::config::setKey default_ns_server "messenger.hotmail.com:1863"
          		::config::setKey start_ns_server "messenger.hotmail.com:1863"
          		::config::setKey default_gateway_server "gateway.messenger.hotmail.com"
          		::config::setKey start_gateway_server "gateway.messenger.hotmail.com"		
          		::config::setKey activeautoupdate 1		;#Active the auto update
          		::config::setKey allowbadwords 1		;#Disable censure on nicks
          		::config::setKey enablebanner 1		;#Show or Hide AMSN Banner (By default Show)
          		::config::setKey startontray 0		;#Start amsn on tray icon only (hide contact list)
          		::config::setKey storename 1			;#Store original nick in a variable when go to custom states to revert it when go back
          		::config::setKey strictfonts 0		;#Use strict fonts' size in _ALL_ AMSN's fonts (Disabled by default)
          		if {[OnMaemo] } {

That should at least let you log in.

SevenTheGamingKitty · April 5, 2025, 12:06pm

Hmm.. either i got the authentication server wrong or there’s a problem.

yellows111 · April 5, 2025, 2:20pm

Escargot’s Dispatch Server is currently ds.escargot.nina.chat:1863. The Passport server is currently https://ds.escargot.nina.chat/RST.srf.

SevenTheGamingKitty · April 5, 2025, 10:58pm

Hmm. I’m thinking I’m doing something wrong as it’s not connecting
~~where are you getting the URLs anyway? would rather not bother you. :P~~

yellows111 · April 5, 2025, 11:21pm

Patched copies’ escargot.ini.

The gateway server is also currently ds.escargot.nina.chat, without :1863.

As for why this isn’t working, well literally as of writing, certs have expired.

Other than that, I have no idea. Maybe you have a config somewhere overriding the new defaults?

SevenTheGamingKitty · April 5, 2025, 11:39pm

seeing as the original aMSN posts mentioned there being a config file being generated at the program’s first startup that’s prone to ignoring config.tcl, that might be it
edit: Yep! config.xml was the issue, still can’t login from the lack of proper certificates though

SevenTheGamingKitty · April 6, 2025, 3:27am

This appears to be another SSL issue, but i can access msnmsgr on my browser, so it should be working fine

yellows111 · April 6, 2025, 7:41am

Not sure what version of the tls library gets installed with this version of aMSN.

github.com/tomhennigan/amsn

amsn/soap.tcl

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          		} else {

          			set headers $options(-headers)

          		}

          

          		set proxy [::config::getKey proxy]

          		set proxy_host [lindex $proxy 0]

          		set proxy_port [lindex $proxy 1]

          

          		if {[::config::getKey connectiontype] == "direct" } {

          			::http::config -proxyhost "" -proxyport ""

          			http::register https 443 [list ::tls::socket -cadir $::CERT_DIR -command ::amsn::checkcert -request 1 -require 1]

          			http::register http 80 ::socket

          		} elseif {[::config::getKey connectiontype] == "http" } {

          			# haha, ok, this is easy, http connection means the http gateway, which means no need to set up a proxy! :D

          			::http::config -proxyhost "" -proxyport ""

          			http::register https 443 [list ::tls::socket -cadir $::CERT_DIR -command ::amsn::checkcert -request 1 -require 1]

          			http::register http 80 ::socket

          		} elseif { [::config::getKey connectiontype] == "proxy" && [::config::getKey proxytype] == "http" } {

          			if {$proxy_host == "" } {

          				::http::config -proxyhost "" -proxyport ""

          			} else {

Maybe this should be:

http::register https 443 [list ::tls::socket -ssl3 false -ssl2 false -tls1 true -cadir $::CERT_DIR -command ::amsn::checkcert -request 1 -require 1]

(note the added -ssl3 false -ssl2 false -tls1 true)
for SNI, you’d want -servername "ds.escargot.nina.chat" with that.

And these changes should be applied to line 63 as well.

SevenTheGamingKitty · April 6, 2025, 7:50am

Maybe I should’ve used a newer version of aMSN. (I chose a version from 2010 in the hopes it’d work better with escargot)

Is it possible to still patch it in despite the slight difference?

yellows111 · April 6, 2025, 8:00am

In this case just replace ::tls::socket with [list ::tls::socket -ssl3 false -ssl2 false -tls1 true].

SevenTheGamingKitty · April 6, 2025, 8:33am

added it in and nope, same exact error happens.