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>From: Christopher Kalos <raptorone@geocities.com>
>Not without the password to the server
I can't seem to connect to the AOL irc server through my firewall,
I keep getting disconnected with a message telling me I'm not
authorized. How does one connect to this server? (I do have
access to an AOL account).
>John Malluck wrote:
>
>> Christopher Kalos wrote:
>>
>>>because the protocol is the same,
What the AOL software sends to AOL over a TCP/IP connection
is most definetly NOT the same thing an IRC client sends to
an IRC server.
>>>and AOL chatrooms are
>>>accessible on irc02.irc.aol.com, which is also an EFNet
>>>server for AOL dialup users.
Last time I checked (which was quite a long time ago), the
AOL IRC server was just that, an IRC server that AOL ran so
that its users could connect to the IRC system. There was
no connectivity to the AOL chatrooms.
That may have changed in the past couple of years, but I
don't expect that it has. AOL 4.0 uses a markup language
to add colors and formatting to its chat text that is not
suppored by any standard IRC client (AFAIK). It would be
possable the strip those characters (as is done for previous versions of
the AOL software) and send them to the IRC server,
but that doesn't make the AOL chat room system IRC. Anyway,
I don't think that AOL chatrooms are accessable via IRC
(but I can't get connected to IRC through my firewall, so
I can't check for sure).
>>>AOL's chat system is IRC, and perhaps the IM system is
>>>as well, but I'll have to look into that. I think the
>>>cmodes are something like stnl 23 or something to that
>>>effect.
Yes, AOL does run an IRC server, but I don't think it runs
its internal chat rooms with it.
I'd sure like to be able to connect and verify this, but
I can't at the moment.
DK
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