[DISCONTINUED] My latest project: Reviving classic ICQ clients - proudly hosted on TReXIoN

sswag · February 15, 2019, 5:31pm

It will, until @OhHelloThereImTheGuy implemented channel 0x02 authentication.

prettystreet · February 15, 2019, 6:22pm

I understand, but when will it be?

xsychoreese · February 15, 2019, 6:34pm

there is no ETA.

as with WLM 2009 and other things, it’s a time consuming process which can take days, weeks, months or years to get done. there’s no definite time of arrival for ICQ6 support and will take a lot of reverse engineering of authentication to get done.

OhHelloThereImTheGuy · February 15, 2019, 10:33pm

As @sswag said, it’s channel 0x02 auth, but that’s technically MD5-based, meaning that I can’t pass it to clientLogin to get the BOS (it expects cleartext), which ultimately means I can’t support that version.

prettystreet · February 16, 2019, 2:37pm

ehhh… sad

Raymonf · February 17, 2019, 4:51am

imagine using vs2010 when 2017 exists

prettystreet · February 18, 2019, 2:04pm

There is no way to make ICQ 6 work right now?

marjuanm · February 19, 2019, 3:05pm

is a personal ICQ server then?

msnnostalgia · February 19, 2019, 4:23pm

Nope.

marjuanm · February 19, 2019, 8:12pm

How work this then?, greetings.

msnnostalgia · February 20, 2019, 5:29pm

See the 1st post.

marjuanm · February 24, 2019, 5:49am

So you can connect to the icq server using older versions?

prettystreet · February 24, 2019, 10:20am

Yeah. You can use ICQ 2000a - 2003b, ICQ 5 and unofficial client QIP 2005. Just rename server in settings:

Server: hypersonic.trexion.com
Port: 5190

trixie · February 24, 2019, 10:27am

is there ANY possibility to register the accounts, by just adding those manually?

marjuanm · February 25, 2019, 2:05am

wow, and we can see the server source code to studing?

prettystreet · February 28, 2019, 10:30am

I don’t know, this is not my project.

OhHelloThereImTheGuy · March 30, 2019, 3:56pm

Last night, I was notified that clientLogin-based clients had stopped working. After looking into this to see if the problem had affected my server, I was shocked to see what had happened.

So clientLogin still works, but the BOS server it returns doesn’t seem to be active anymore, as when trying to connect to it myself, it results in the connection not being accepted. This looks like Mail.ru trying to shutter the last routes to using ICQ on its classic servers, and if the issue isn’t resolved after I post this, then it’d be best to assume that the classic ICQ service has officially taken the tumble. Let’s just see how this plays out.

water · March 30, 2019, 6:27pm

Great. Fuckin’ great.

OhHelloThereImTheGuy · March 31, 2019, 9:05am

It’s been 2 days since the classic ICQ servers went dark, and no sign of ICQ being able to connect to the core services w/ hypersonic. I can safely conclude that the servers have been knocked out. I believe this especially since from looking through my server logs, very few BOS servers for ICQ are still up, but not used in the authentication procedure that supplies them with a cookie for authentication purposes. Pretty much, R.I.P. Classic ICQ.

I do have a Yahoo! Messenger server in the works I made as a testbed, but right now it only supports anonymous logins with temporary contact lists and is a bit rough around the edges. More info will come soon.

anon74637124 · March 31, 2019, 9:17am

Good things have to always end and the bad stuff no