Can't login to ICQ or AIM servers "Received unexpected response from http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession"
Bug #506647 reported by
SchnacK
This bug affects 30 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Empathy |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
empathy (Fedora) |
Fix Released
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High
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empathy (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
pidgin (Debian) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
pidgin (Fedora) |
Invalid
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High
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|||
pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
After an Pigdin crash i couldn't re-login with my ICQ Account, i didn't changed anything at the Programm Failure msg. "Unexpectet Answer from* http://
OS: Ubuntu 9.04
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: pidgin 1:2.6.5-
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686
UnreportableReason: Das Paket stammt nicht von Ubuntu.
Related branches
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in pidgin (Fedora): | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Invalid |
Changed in empathy (Fedora): | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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This is filed against Empathy 2.28.2.
After performing a system update, Empathy is unable to login to AIM and ICQ. Interestingly, Pidgin is also experiencing the same error, reporting the problem as "Received unexpected response from https:/ /api.screenname .aol.com/ auth/clientLogi n". Empathy didn't specify what the problem was.
On the basis of that error, I ran Wireshark and watched the login attempt.
Empathy sends the following request to the server (with personal details omitted):
---------- api.oscar. aol.com/ aim/startOSCARS ession? a=[...] &f=xml& k=[...] &ts=1263348414& useTLS= 1&sig_sha256= [...]
GET http://
HTTP/1.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Host: api.oscar.aol.com
----------
The response from the server is then as follows:
----------
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:06:54 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 286
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Keep-Alive: timeout=1, max=61
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> developer. aim.com/ xsd/aim. xsd"><statusCode> 400</statusCode ><statusText> useTLS= 1 is not allowed for non secure requests. </statusText> <data>< ts>1263348414< /ts><upgradeDat a></upgradeData ><betaData> </betaData> </data> </response>
<response xmlns="http://
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Empathy then reports that the login failed. I have verified that my accounts are still valid: they successfully connect using the website Meebo.
It is interesting that both Empathy and Pidgin are suddenly experiencing the same error. Thinking that the bug must be on AOL's side, I checked with other (non-Fedora) Empathy/Pidgin users, but haven't been able to find anyone else who could reproduce the bug.
The output of `rpm -ql --last` | head -75` is provided in the attachment.