ICQ protocol

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ICQ protocol
ICQ protocol
Filename ICQ.dll
Authors George Hazan
Download links
Stable version: 32-bit, 64-bit
Development version: 32-bit, 64-bit

ICQ (WIM) protocol support for Miranda NG.

Known problems

  • ICQ servers drop old auth scheme support. We deprecated old OSCAR protocol completely and implemented support for a brand new WIM protocol, but it currently lacks many features.
  • Residents of Ukraine may experience connection problems. Some IP-addresses belonging to Mail.ru are blocked in Ukraine. Use proxy or VPN.
  • Until Issue #2343 is fixed, you will have to enter the SMS code each time you connect to the network if your account does not have a permanent password.

Troubleshooting

What to do if you can not connect

If you are using a version earlier than 0.95.10.1, then upgrade to this version or newer. If you cannot connect even after the update, make network log with an unsuccessful connection attempt and attach it to your message in this thread.

Rejected password

After updating to v0.95.5 you may not be able to log into your account. The message will be: Connection failed. Your ICQ number or password was rejected.

Up to v0.95.4 Miranda didn't support ICQ passwords longer than 8 symbols. If you have ever entered a password longer than that, Miranda would store the whole password in database, but send only the first 8 symbols to server. ICQ servers did not support more than 8, too. They increased the maximum password length to 16 symbols. So the change was made in Miranda to meet the standards.

Miranda v0.95.5 sends the whole your "more-than-8-symbols-password" which the server justly considers incorrect and rejects it.

The solution is to go to Options → Network → <Account_name> and re-enter your password (the first 8 symbols of it).

To use a longer password, you need to set the new one through the ICQ website.

Keep in mind that some programs (QIP 2005, Jasmine IM for Android) have not been updated for a long time and do not support long passwords. If you need such programs, it is necessary to limit the password to 8 characters.

«"statusText": "Invalid Request. statusDetailCode 1015", "statusDetailCode": 1015» error in the network log

In most cases, the time is out of sync between your computer and the server. Check the accuracy of the system time. Synchronize the time in the operating system settings. Check the time zone, as well as the transition to winter/summer time. Some users report that the problem was solved after changing the time zone to a similar one (for example, "UTC + 03 Moscow" → "UTC + 03 Minsk".

How to know your UIN

  • login to ICQ website with your phone number and SMS code (don't login to web-based ICQ client!)
  • click on your logged user's nickname and see your UIN
  • logout from ICQ website

Why do some contacts in the contact list become faint when I first log in with a new protocol?

These contacts were previously stored locally in Miranda. For some reason, you never added them to the server contact list. Miranda marks such contacts as NotOnList and puts them to the bottom of the contact list. They will be erased after restart, which may lead to the loss of history. You must immediately add them to the permanent list (item in the contact's context menu or open the conversation window and press the green "plus" button).

Why have some contacts changed their names to [deleted]?

ICQ technical support response: This account has been removed for prolonged non-use. It can not be restored.

Contacts that use an official client, constantly switching between online and offline

Official ICQ 10 client goes to offline after 10-15 seconds of inactivity and returns online if the user interacts with the client. For example, Telegram client behave similarly.

This behavior came to the desktop from mobile devices. The fact is that when you receive certain notifications that are displayed on the lock screen or in the blind, you need to understand that they do not come directly from the service or program you are using (for example, WhatsApp or VKontakte). Receipt and display of such messages are carried out by a separate service, which receives them through the servers of the OS manufacturers (Google, Apple, and Microsoft, respectively).

Here is how it works. Imagine that you are using Android and you have decided to call your friend in WhatsApp. He selects your contact in the list, clicks the call icon and then sees the animation of the connection. At this time, his application sends a call to the WhatsApp server. Which, after processing the call, it makes a request to the Google server. In this request, if we translate it into a language understandable to us, there will be something like "display on the device with an application ID having such and such notification of an incoming call from such a contact".

This is done in order to save the battery power of the mobile device. Agree that the "phone periodically connects to Google/Apple servers" scheme is much more energy-efficient than a schemе in which each messenger (and there are often several on the phone) would work continuously, maintaining a connection with its server.

The desktop client simply copies the behavior of the mobile client.

How now to find out which contacts are really unavailable?

If the contact stubbornly wishes to use the official client, you can use the Last seen plugin. The plugin receives last activity time from the protocol (when a contact last interacted with its official client) and displays it in the context menu of the contact.

In addition, Modern contact list can take this information from Last seen and show it directly in the contact list. To do this, you need to turn on the Contact list → Row items → Second line (or "Third line") → Status message.

Finally, this information can be displayed at the Tipper prompt. In the section Customize → Tooltips → Content → Substitutions you need to create the following substitutions:

Label: lastseen_ago
Module: SeenModule
Translation: <prefix>Day|Month|Year|Hours|Minutes|Seconds to the time difference
Label: lastseen_date
Module: SeenModule
Translation: <prefix>Day|Month|Year to date
Label: lastseen_time
Module: SeenModule
Translation: <prefix>Hours|Minutes|Seconds to time

On the same tab, create the following "Element":

Label: Last seen:
Value: %lastseen_date% @ %lastseen_time% (%lastseen_ago% ago)
Show only for contacts

In addition, in the ICQ protocol settings, you can find two useful options that do not allow contacts to go Offline immediately.

Why are new contacts no longer asking for authorization before write to me?

The new WIM protocol does not provide authorization in principle. The user can freely write to another user, as in all modern instant messengers. The addressee, in turn, is free to add him to the contact list, delete, or block.

Why are the versions of contacts' clients not displayed at all or incorrectly displayed?

Under the new protocol, the server does not receive explicit information about which program is used on another side. Identification of clients is only possible indirectly, using caps, this is implemented only for third-party clients who work under the new protocol.

How to mport ICQ history from QIP?

Use Import plugin.

You get old SecureIM keys from contact every time you connect to network

Send any message to the contact from which you get these keys.