AIM-Watch, a packet sniffer and dissector for the OSCAR protocol Copyright (C) 2004 Bryan Schneiders <daten@irixbox.com>
This program reads packets from the network or a file and attempts to interpret and reconstruct data relavent to AOL Instant Messenger connections.
You can download the current source code from http://irixbox.com/
Development of this program was made possible by studying packets collected directly off the network, reviewing code submitted to the "Ethereal" project, reviewing code in the "Gaim" client and reading the limited documentation available called OSCARdoc. See credits below for links. No proprietary software was disassembled or tampered with.
- Requirements
You will need to have the following libraries installed before you will be able to build or execute this program.
GTK+2 can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ Libpcap can be found at http://www.tcpdump.org/ Libxml2 can be found at http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
- Building
There is a basic Makefile distributed with this program, if you already have the required libraries installed, you can run the "make" command in the source directory to build an executable.
This Makefile was tested with only with GNU make.
- Disclaimer
There is no warranty, expressed or implied, associated with this product. Use at your own risk.- Credits
This program was made possible by the following previous works:
Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
http://www.ethereal.com/
By Gerald Combs <gerald@ethereal.com>
Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs
Routines for AIM Instant Messenger (OSCAR) dissection Copyright 2000, Ralf Hoelzer <ralf@well.com>
Gaim multi-protocol instant messaging client
http://gaim.sf.net/
Mark Spencer <markster@marko.net> - Original Author
ric Warmenhoven <eric@warmenhoven.org> - Former Lead Developer
OSCARdoc - AIM/Oscar Protocol Specification http://aimdoc.sourceforge.net/OSCARdoc/ Adam Fritzler and Scott Werndorfer
- License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
See COPYING file for more information.
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