Tcl ICQ library

I. Purpose

II. Features

General Features

• Versions 7, 8 and partially 9 of ICQ/OSCAR protocol are supported
• Multiplatform. Can be used in Unix, Windows, MacOS platforms on different architectures
• Sending and receiving messages of different types (see below)
• ICQ Whitepages support
• Registration of new ICQ UINs
• Change of login password
• Sending and reporting standard and user-defined capabilities
• Visible and invisible lists
• Server-side roster support
• Can work with external proxy command (http(s) proxy is available in default distribution)

Messages

• Can send following kinds of messages:

  • plain text
  • URLs
  • SMS messages
  • contacts
  • authorization aceptance or rejection
  • authorization requests

• Can receive followind kind of messages:

  • plain text from ICQ clients
  • plain text from web-based client and e-mail pager
  • URLs
  • contacts
  • authorization requests
  • authorization acceptance or rejection
• Sending/receiving unicode messages to/from unicode-capable ICQ clients
• Detects message encodings if possible (supports unicode messages from ICQ-Lite)
• Automaticaly sends acknowledges on incoming Type-2 messages
• Reports client or server aknowledges on outgoing Type-2 messages
• Outgoing messages spool prevents message rate limit exceeding
• Splitting of big messages to the packets of size allowed by server
• Combining big messages sent by this library

ICQ Whitepages

• Searching in ICQ white-pages
• Retrieving information about ICQ contact from white-pages
• Retrieving and changing personal information