MySpace IM conversation

[taciturn]

I honestly don't believe it will stay niche once it is out of beta and MySpace starts promoting it heavily. MySpace has a massive user base and a lot of them are really into it. Their IM service is going to integrate into it so switching for a lot of them will be a no brainer, especially since you already have all your friends in your contact list(well not by deault but its just a few clicks to import everyone).

I'm fairly certain most of my friends will switch, in fact a few of them are already using it. And I've already had to explain to a couple of people I couldn't chat with them because I couldn't use the program. I'm not too worried since MySpace will probably release a Mac client eventually; however, I'd much rather use Adium than something they put out.

[BaselineAce]

I think this would be very useful, given Myspace's large user base.

[sydbarrett74]

I heard the rumour that the MySpaceIM protocol is a modified form of Jabber (a la GoogleTalk)...is this true?

[Catfish_Man]

I heard the rumour that the MySpaceIM protocol is a modified form of Jabber (a la GoogleTalk)...is this true?

If someone wants to give me an ethereal dump of the traffic while using it, I can check...

[David Munch]

Nope, which is why we're looking for protocol specs. Apparently the protocol changes weekly though.

Reason enough to wait then!

Did a quick Google. Some say etheral calls it the MSN protocol (Apparently it uses the same port among things). And then someone said it was rumored to use http://www.sonork.com/.

[ajmas]

One observation is that the messenger client connections to userplane servers. Their connection with myspace is confirmed in this article:

http://news.userplane.com/public/item/130341

The only thing that bothers me is that a connection seems to remain present (established) to 01.presence.userplane.com, even once I have quit the client. This is by using netstat to look at the connections. I also notice that port 1863 is being used for the communications.

You could use http://analyzer.polito.it/ to see what is happening.

I basic analyis shows that the each message made up of fields separated by back slashes and include both the field name and its value. One which I extracted
(note that there are no line breaks, I added them below to make it easier to view):

\persist\1\sesskey\1013415\cmd\1\dsn\4\uid\85700009\lid\5
\rid\1\body\UserID=85700009\final\\persist\1\sesskey\1013415
\cmd\1\dsn\1\uid\85700009\lid\4\rid\2\body\\final\\persist\1
\sesskey\1013415\cmd\1\dsn\2\uid\85700009\lid\6\rid\3\body
\\final\\persist\1\sesskey\1013415\cmd\1\dsn\0\uid\85700009
\lid\1\rid\4\body\\final\\persist\1\sesskey\1013415\cmd\1\dsn
\7\uid\85700009\lid\18\rid\5\body\\final\

[johnny2pints]

Hi Guys,

I'm writing a small LSP to sniff mySpaceIM traffic. The first couple of message come through on port 1863 as expected, and in plaintext, as expected.

However, after a few mins, I loose any more incoming messages, I see bits of encrypted type information. but would that make sense ? plaintext at the start and then switch to encrypted after connection ?...

seem very weird. Anyone have any ideas on this ?

Cheers,
John

[twopeak]

This guy link pretends to have been contacted by the Myspace product manager.
It might be believable since the guy pretends to be working for Fox, and MySpace is part of Fox...
You might try to contact him to get in touch with the Myspace IM ppl?

[The_Tick]

Hi Guys,

I'm writing a small LSP to sniff mySpaceIM traffic. The first couple of message come through on port 1863 as expected, and in plaintext, as expected.

However, after a few mins, I loose any more incoming messages, I see bits of encrypted type information. but would that make sense ? plaintext at the start and then switch to encrypted after connection ?...

seem very weird. Anyone have any ideas on this ?

Cheers,
John

What about connection information?

[kareem]

This guy link pretends to have been contacted by the Myspace product manager.
It might be believable since the guy pretends to be working for Fox, and MySpace is part of Fox...
You might try to contact him to get in touch with the Myspace IM ppl?

Erm, there's no pretending about my working for FOX or having been contacted by the MSIM PM. Both are decidedly true.

Cheers,
Kareem

[The_Tick]

This guy link pretends to have been contacted by the Myspace product manager.
It might be believable since the guy pretends to be working for Fox, and MySpace is part of Fox...
You might try to contact him to get in touch with the Myspace IM ppl?

Erm, there's no pretending about my working for FOX or having been contacted by the MSIM PM. Both are decidedly true.

Cheers,
Kareem

So if you have contact with the pm could you get us in contact with the pm?

[BodhiGeek]

It seems that AOL bought out Userplane, the provider of Myspace's IM, round about the time this thread was last active:

http://www.userplane.com/aol/

They claim they're aiming for interoperability. Perhaps it's already there, I'm clueless, and that's why this thread has been idle?

Checking out Userplane's site, digging into the plugins they provide for Drupal, it looks like their product is basically a black box web service.

http://www.userplane.com/buy/

I'm not sure folks who've implemented it would be of much use, rather any protocol info would need to come from Userplane.

Having said that, a buddy of mine who works at another social community (http://zaadz.com/about) told me today that their IM is also provided by Userplane.

Do the devs here think talking to someone who's implemented it would help?

If so, I can try kicking them in the shins and getting one of them to pop over here. They're all Linux and OSX heads, so they'd be sympathetic to the cause, if they're not contractually bound to silence.

[tkandme3]

Yeah, when will Adium be compatible with MySpace IM Accounts???

Hope it's soon...

[The_Tick]

Probably within the next year or two.