MSN Protocol Filters.
Is it time to switch to a new IM protocol?
The following is a list of 27 test cases I compiled and sent to NekoKouji one by one.
The following is what NekoKouji echoed back to me. As you can see, some lines were not received by him. ^^U
Quote:
(22:52:41) NekoKouji: [2005/11/10/22:49:37] Little Vexy: Line 2: http://isohunt.com/
[2005/11/10/22:49:48] Little Vexy: Line 4: isohunt.com/
[2005/11/10/22:49:54] Little Vexy: Line 5: isohunt com
[2005/11/10/22:49:59] Little Vexy: Line 6: isohunt
[2005/11/10/22:50:09] Little Vexy: Line 8: download php
[2005/11/10/22:50:14] Little Vexy: Line 9: mode=bt&id=5718315
[2005/11/10/22:50:18] Little Vexy: Line 10: mode=bt
(22:52:47) NekoKouji: [2005/11/10/22:50:22] Little Vexy: Line 11: id=5718315
[2005/11/10/22:50:26] Little Vexy: Line 12: download.htm
[2005/11/10/22:50:30] Little Vexy: Line 13: http://isohunt.com/download.htm
[2005/11/10/22:50:36] Little Vexy: Line 14: http://isohunt.com/upload.php?mode=bt&id=5718315
[2005/11/10/22:50:57] Little Vexy: Line 19: download.htm?mode=bt&id=5718315
[2005/11/10/22:51:01] Little Vexy: Line 20: MICROSOFT is GAY!
[2005/11/10/22:51:06] Little Vexy: Line 21: http://static.thepiratebay.org/downl...27.TPB.torrent
[2005/11/10/22:51:15] Little Vexy: Line 23: http://thepiratebay.org/
[2005/11/10/22:51:18] Little Vexy: Line 24: http://download.com/
[2005/11/10/22:51:27] Little Vexy: Line 27: Ok, go to this website and navigate to download and click on PHP.
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The following is for better visual results, (all lines in
red are filtered out by MSN.)
In conlusion, MSN filters any message with "
download.php" string inside of it.
To test our theories further, we tested this with MSN to GAIM communication, as well as GAIM to MSN communication. In both cases, any message with "
download.php" was filtered out.
We then tested GAIM to GAIM communication, and once again any messages with "
download.php" was filtered out.
We (me and Esfan38) came to conclude that this filtering is done at MSN routing server level, since GAIM reports "User has closed the conversation window" everytime any message with "
download.php" in it is send across the network, independent who send it and with what client the user send it.
Therefore, just becareful, and note that that any message with "
download.php" will never be delivered.
Thank you to NekoKouji and Esfan38 Neko-san for testing.