Remsgr: MSNP server in Node.js

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so after reviving instagram’s old api i wanted to do something more interesting…

…reviving msnp, i knew this was gonna be more difficult but i have a lot of free time right now so why not!

for now the server only works from msnp2 to msnp6 (7 doesn’t login for now, but i am working on it), my plan is to make a public msn server, but before that i wanna try reviving at least up to msnp12/13

i’ve been working on it for two weeks now, may seem like i haven’t done a lot in such a long time but honestly msnp is not an easy protocol so i am taking my time as i don’t wanna rush things and i wanna make sure EVERYTHING works.

here is a little video demo of me logging in with MSN 4.7

since i plan on making this a public msn server, i’ve made a website for it, it’s still very simple since it’s a w.i.p but feel free to check it out lol

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Awesome :slight_smile:

To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever tried to do so using node.

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Amazing!

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ive seen a post on here of someone who did it but no updates since 2022 unfortunately, i originally just wanted to get just wlm 2009 working but then i decided to go step by step from msnp2 to msnp21, msnp 5 and 6 were easy cause they dont really change much from msnp 4 lol

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In your SYN handler, You probably need to add a

// 5 params: Version, iterator, Total number of groups, group ID, name, ???```
c.write(`LSG ${transactionId} ${listId} 1 1 0 Other%20Contacts 0\r\n`);

after the BLP.

then shove extra parameters in your LSTs for the group IDs

c.write(`LST ${transactionId} FL ${listId} 1 1 example@test.usr test%20user 0\r\n`);
// AL, RL, and BL don't have group IDs, this example is empty anyway
c.write(`LST ${transactionId} AL ${listId} 0 0\r\n`)
c.write(`LST ${transactionId} BL ${listId} 0 0\r\n`)
c.write(`LST ${transactionId} RL ${listId} 0 0\r\n`)

Doing this should make MSNP7 work.

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yes! i forgot to post an update but i figured that out yesterday haha :slight_smile: thank you very much tho!

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Damn, It’s been a while.

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the project’s name has changed from the butterfly project to xirk, might seem like a weird name but i like it lol :stuck_out_tongue: i’ve made a very simple website quickly:

& some updates on xirk itself, i have gotten msnp7 to pass login (as yellows111 mentionned i had groups missing lol) now that i’ve gotten to this level i’m gonna focus on the switchboard, which is probably the hardest part (handles all messages, chat sessions & all that stuff)

i will try to post updates as much as i can :slight_smile:

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you can now change your status and it’ll update for your whole friend list (this took a long time to make :sob:)

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very cool

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Do You think will it support Window Mobile 2003 SE’s MSN Messenger? (Yes, You can actually change it’s server in registry)

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do you know what version of msnp it uses?

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If I had to Recall… Possibly under MSNP 7

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From another post

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if it doesn’t work with escargot it most likely won’t work with xirk, they work in a similar way

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Well, It does technically work but just complains about the password being wrong, Even with legacy password on.

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well it could work then, i think the way i handle legacy passwords is different from escargot

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You might need WM2003SE SDK/Emulator to see what kind of password does the WM2003SE Client send, But setting up the internet on Emulator will be a nightmare rocket fuel since… WELL MICROSOFT. Because it Needs Virtual PC 2007 just for the internet and Windows 10 DOES NOT LIKE VPC2007

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It has nothing to do with the way Escargot handles passwords, it’s simply HTTPS issues with modern certificates and ciphers.

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ohh okay makes sense, i thought he meant using MD5 auth, if it uses TWN or SSO yeah it’ll probably have an issue on mine too