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</h1> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <td><strong>Homepage:
</strong></td> <td> <a class="ext_link" href="http://www.aim.com">http://www.aim.com
</a></td> <td><strong>Type:
</strong></td> <td><strong>Identity:
</strong></td> <td>user name (called "screen name" by AOL)
</td> <td><strong>Interoperability:
</strong></td> <td><strong>Popularity:
</strong></td> <tr><td><strong>Default server; port:
</strong></td> <td>login.oscar.aol.com; 5190
</td> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>Being the second modern client after ICQ, AIM was initially released in 1997.
</p> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>AIM servers filter strings containing
<i><img
</i> and
<i><script
</i>, which are tags in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) AIM uses to encode messages (so as to support fonts, colors, etc.).
</p> <p>HTML tags that you put into the inputline are “escaped” by Adium, so that the recipient's client will not attempt to use the HTML tag; it will simply display the text of the tag. However, it appears that the AIM server drops messages containing even escaped HTML (but only those two tags—other tags work fine).
</p> <p>AIM will also drop any message containing a link to a file: address. These addresses are intended to refer to files on the sender's or your computer. (The file need not actually exist on one end or the other. A perfectly valid file: link can refer to a path that does not exist on anyone's machine, such as this one.)
</p> <p>On the other hand, it will allow the message if the address is plain text instead of a link. So, for example, “Check out what I just wrote: file:///Users/me/Documents/Why-Adium-is-awesome.txt” will go through, but “Check out
<a class="ext_link" href="file:///Users/me/Documents/Why-Adium-is-awesome.txt">what I just wrote
</a>” will not.
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