AIM/Oscar Protocol Specification:
Section 3: BOS Signon: Service Request



Service Request [Source: Client]

Requests a new service. Normally used for starting up the mechanism to get advertisments and to set up chat.

SNAC Information:

  • Family 0x0001
  • SubType 0x0004
  • Flags {0x00, 0x00}

ContainerDataTLV Type
RAWSNAC Header
RAWService Type

Services available:


ServiceService ID
Advertisements0x0005
Administrative0x0007
Chat Navigation0x000d
Chat0x000e
Authorizer (AIM 3.5 (SNAC-based login) only)0x0017

Often, the service ID is the same as the SNAC family that serves it. However, this is only applicable to non-core services such as Chat and Ads.

 


Adam Fritzler
Last modified: Tue May 23 07:54:14 UTC 2000