Joscar questions

Openfire Plugins Kraken - IM Gateway
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What version of joscar is the current gateway running?

I know that the latest version of joscar is .93, which is really old. September 30, 2003!

Are there any known problems with joscar and how the gateway uses it?

What other aim clients use joscar and do they experience the same issues?

We’re having a problem that manifests itself in such a way:

A user signs onto aol for some time.

They lose the ability to send and receive message, but they SEEM ONLINE to their buddies on Trillian and Aim 6.0.

Their sessions are officially dead but openfire/joscar does not catch this issue and mention it in any way. Is openfire catching it and ignoring it? I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be doing that.

This thread is related to an older thread with some useful information from other openfire users:

By the way, this issue also manifests itself in Yahoo, but our aim usage is a priority.

Any help would be appreciated.

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I found some useful tcpdump logs to share too:

…#.O1…7…E…Q.@.i._…F.S

.p.|_,.P.@.w…*…8…cKL…

anonUser…>… …r…+…G…)…G…)…anonUser:1206640957763… …

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14:02:47.062492 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 733:822(89) ack 39468 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…m…@…V. .Fc…W…dP…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206640967059…

14:02:47.731016 IP 205.188.8.185.5190 > app3.yjenergy.com.53331: P 41880:42029(149) ack 61 win 16384

…#.O1…7…E…7@.i…F.S

.q.|_,.P.@.?..*…:…cz…

anonUser…>… …r…4…G…)…G…)…anonUser:1206640967059… …

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14:02:48.082467 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 733:822(89) ack 39468 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…k…@…V. .Fc…W…dP…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206640967059…

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14:02:57.832799 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 822:911(89) ack 39939 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…e…@…V. .Fc…;P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206640977830…

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14:02:58.213508 IP 205.188.8.185.5190 > app3.yjenergy.com.53331: P 42628:42777(149) ack 61 win 16384

…#.O1…7…E…@.i…M…F.S

.t.|_,.P.@…*…?..c.G…

anonUser…>… …r…>…G…)…G…)…anonUser:1206640977830… …

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14:03:24.722945 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…a…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:03:26.961292 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…_…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:03:31.436636 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…]…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:03:40.389396 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…[…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:03:58.294231 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…Y…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:04:34.102428 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…W…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:05:45.721167 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…@.@…U…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:07:45.725209 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E… @.@…S…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:09:45.727807 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…"@.@…Q…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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…#.O1…7…E…P.o@.i.#…N…F.

…v.k…mP.@…*…I."…8.

anonUser…

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14:11:45.731927 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…$@.@…O…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:13:45.736101 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…&@.@…M…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:15:45.738597 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…(@.@…K…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:17:45.742075 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…*@.@…I…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

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14:19:45.745534 IP app3.yjenergy.com.58400 > 64.12.26.86.5190: P 911:1000(89) ack 40035 win 32767

…7…#.O1…E…,@.@…G…@…V. .Fc.

…P…*…S…

yjmonitorprod…)…anonUser:1206641004720…

I’ll explain what’s happening:

We have a monitor we sent to from each aim session we have through openfire’s gateway. Each time the user sends a message, it consists of their username, in this case anonUser, a colon, and the time it was received in milliseconds. It happens about every 30 seconds, but it’s not a guarantee. As you can see, it does it pretty well, but it attempts to send “anonUser:1206640977830” twice, and then it attempts to send “anonUser:1206641004720” multiple times. The person was essentially signed off and we didn’t know it. The problem probably lies in the joscar source. If we see a message is being sent to one person multiple times in a row as attempts, we should note it and probably consider it as a disconnect.

One question I have is: Are we sure it happens in joscar and not the gateway? Is there any code in the plugin that would cause this behavior?