Protocols/MSNP/URLs used by MSN
| MSNP Protocol |
| Introduction • Terms • Clients |
| Reference |
| Error List • Commands • Relying Party Suite • Spotlife |
| Services |
| XMPP • HTTP Gateway • Tabs • Activities |
| Documentation |
| Development Tools • MSNP Grid |
| Polygamy • URLs used by MSN |
| Documents |
| Protocol Versions |
| Version 21 |
| Version 18 |
| Version 16 |
| Version 15 |
| Version 14 |
| Version 13 |
| Version 12 |
| Version 11 |
| Version 9 |
| Version 8 |
| Version 2 |
| MSNC |
| Introduction • P2P • Object Descriptor • Display Pictures • File Transfer |
| Scenarios |
| Microsoft Messenger for Mac |
| MSNP on WebTV (MSNTV) |
These are some of the URLs used by MSN, including the final URLs used in their own shortener domain.
Essential
messenger.hotmail.com: MSNP connection; all versionsmessenger.hotmail-int.com: MSNP connection; some betas, including 5.0.0327?gateway.messenger.hotmail.com: HTTP proxy for around the MSNP connection; all versionsnexus.passport.com: Provides login url; MSN 5 - 7.0config.messenger.msn.com: MsgrConfig file that specifies tabs, ads, etc; MSN 6+loginnet.passport.com,login.live.com: IDCRL login; MSN 7.5+byrdr.omega.contacts.msn.com: SOAP contacts; WLM 8
Non-essential/additional services
ows.messenger.msn.com,rsi.hotmail.com: Offline messaging servers, send and receive respectivelylogin.live.com: HTTP(S) authentication to Windows Live ID and acquiring of x509 certificates for secure peer-to-peer (p2p) connections for the Sharing Folders feature*.storage.msn.com: Online storage of user tile, status message, display name, and Windows Live Space storage? WLM 8.0+?sup.live.com: What's New service; WLM 2009+sqm.msn.com: Software Quality Management; telemetry/log submissiong.msn.com: URL shortener for various Microsoft/MSN/Live services and downloadsc.msn.com: "To set an anonymous unique ID for a user to personalize the Windows Live experience"crl.microsoft.com: "To access the latest Certificate Revocation List (CRL) in order to check the validity of a certificate"*.edge.messenger.live.com: "Various core Messenger operations. For example, echo servers that are used to establish direct connectivity between two messenger clients for peer-to-peer (p2p) communication when clients are behind firewalls"relay.data.edge.messenger.live.com: "Media relay used to transfer binary data (files, voice, or video)"rad.msn.com: "To download advertising content display in the client and to download ad-sponsored personal expression content, such as display pictures, and emoticons"appdirectory.messenger.msn.com: "Used by Messenger activities/games applications that run inside Messenger applications"images.messenger.msn.com: "For messenger image files"spaces.live.com: "For the contact card"relay.voice.messenger.msn.com: "Media relay used for voice"
g.msn.com URLs
g.msn.com/5meen_us/1: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2000/imclient.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/2: "No such link"g.msn.com/5meen_us/3: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/default.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/4: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/5: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/default.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/6: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/7: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxpg.msn.com/5meen_us/8: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/9: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/10: "No such link"g.msn.com/5meen_us/11: http://loginnet.passport.com/login.srf?id=2&svc=mail&cbid=24325&msppjph=1&lc=1033 → http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/sbox → http://lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login?_lang=EN&lc=1033&fs=1&ct=1043371254&tw=86400&id=2&kv=0&rru=%2fcgi%2dbin%2fhmhome&reason=nocookiesg.msn.com/5meen_us/12: "No such link"g.msn.com/5meen_us/13: http://www.passport.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/14: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/15: http://memberservices.passport.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/16: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/17: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/18: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/19: http://www.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/20: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/21: http://my.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/22: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/23: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/24: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/25: http://search.msn.comg.msn.com/5meen_us/26: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/27: http://eshop.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/28: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/29: http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/30: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/31: http://communities.msn.com/people/g.msn.com/5meen_us/32: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/33: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/34: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/35: http://join.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/36: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/37: http://explorer.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/38: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/39: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/40: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/41: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/42: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/43: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/44: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/45: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/46: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/47: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/48: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/49: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/50: http://members.msn.com/find.msnw?pgmarket=en-usg.msn.com/5meen_us/51: http://members.msn.com/rootcat.msnw?pgmarket=en-usg.msn.com/5meen_us/52: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/53: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/54: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/55: http://g.msn.com/5meen_ms/55 → http://status.messenger.msn.com/Status.aspxg.msn.com/5meen_us/56: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/57: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/58: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/59: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/60: http://messenger.microsoft.com/tabs/tabxml.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/61: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/62: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/63: http://help.msn.com/EN_US/HelpWindow_msg.asp?INI=Messengerv60DL.ini&H_VER=1.7g.msn.com/5meen_us/64: http://help.msn.com/EN_US/HelpWindow_msg.asp?INI=Messengerv60XP.ini&H_VER=1.7g.msn.com/5meen_us/65: http://messenger.microsoft.com/redirs/validate.asp → http://memberservices.passport.net/uiemailval.srf?id=507&ru=http://messenger.microsoft.com&lc=1031g.msn.com/5meen_us/66: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/67: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/68: http://help.microsoft.com/EN_US/HelpWindow_msg.asp?INI=macmsgv35.ini&H_VER=1.5&H_APP=MSN%20Messengerg.msn.com/5meen_us/69: http://www.pocketpc.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/70: http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/en-us/default.mspxg.msn.com/5meen_us/71: http://groups.msn.com/messengerv6betag.msn.com/5meen_us/72: http://groups.msn.com/messengerv6beta/emoticons.msnwg.msn.com/5meen_us/73: http://groups.msn.com/themsnmessengergroup/displaypictures.msnwg.msn.com/5meen_us/74: http://groups.msn.com/messengerv6beta/backgrounds.msnwg.msn.com/5meen_us/75: http://support.microsoft.com/directory/worldwide/en-us/oemdirectory.asp?sd=gng.msn.com/5meen_us/76: http://messenger.msn.com/resource/Emoticons.aspx?mkt=en-usg.msn.com/5meen_us/77: http://messenger.msn.com/resource/cTiles.aspx?mkt=en-usg.msn.com/5meen_us/78: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/79: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/80: http://messenger.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/81: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/82: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/EDIT_PASSPORT_PROFILE.ASPg.msn.com/5meen_us/83: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/84: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/85: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/86: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/87: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/88: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/89: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/90: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/91: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/92: http://www.mcafee.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/93: http://www.norton.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/94: http://messenger.msn.com:80/redirs/IE6_DOWNLOAD.ASP → http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1e1550cb-5e5d-48f5-b02b-20b602228de6&DisplayLang=eng.msn.com/5meen_us/95: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/96: http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=msn&slcid=USg.msn.com/5meen_us/97: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/netmeeting/g.msn.com/5meen_us/98: http://privacy.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/99: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/msnmessenger/default.mspxg.msn.com/5meen_us/100: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/MOBILE_SETTINGS.asp → http://mobile.msn.com/g.msn.com/5meen_us/101: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/SEARCH.asp → http://g.msn.com/5meen_us/50g.msn.com/5meen_us/102: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/FORGOT_PASSWORD.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/103: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/PORTAL.asp → http://g.msn.com/5meen_us/19g.msn.com/5meen_us/104: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/BUDDY_BROWSE.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/105: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/SIGNUP.asp → http://registernet.passport.net/reg.srf?lc=1033g.msn.com/5meen_us/106: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/VIEW_PROFILE.asp → http://members.msn.com/?pgmarket=-&mem=g.msn.com/5meen_us/107: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/PANE_HELP.asp → http://help.msn.com/EN_US/HelpWindow_msg.asp?INI=&H_VER=1.7&g.msn.com/5meen_us/108: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/COPPA.asp → http://kids.passport.net/Default.srf?lc=1033,id=507,ru=http%3A%2F%2Fmessenger%2Ehotmailg.msn.com/5meen_us/109: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/SERVER_STATUS.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/110: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/WHATS_NEW.asp → http://messenger.msn.com/Feature/WhatsNew.aspxg.msn.com/5meen_us/111: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/TERMS_OF_USE.asp → http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Terms.aspxg.msn.com/5meen_us/112: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/PRIVACY.asp → http://messenger.msn.com/Help/Privacy.aspxg.msn.com/5meen_us/113: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/114: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/QUALITY.asp → http://messenger.msn.com/Help/ceip.aspxg.msn.com/5meen_us/115: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/116: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/BACKGROUNDS.asp → http://messenger.msn.com/resource/cBackgrounds.aspx?mkt=-g.msn.com/5meen_us/117: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/INT/DISPLAY_PICTURES.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/118: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/119: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/120: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/121: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/WINMSGR_UPGRADE.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/122: http://messenger.msn.com/download/v6preview.asp?client=1g.msn.com/5meen_us/123: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/SQM_PROGRAM.asp → http://g.msn.com/5meen_ms/70g.msn.com/5meen_us/125: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/ADVANCED_SEARCH.asp → http://g.msn.com/5meen_us/50g.msn.com/5meen_us/126: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/SEARCH_BY_INTEREST.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/127: ?g.msn.com/5meen_us/128: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/GET_A_CAMERA.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/129: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/CAMERA_INFO.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/130: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/HELP_TOUR.asp → http://messenger.msn.com/Tour/g.msn.com/5meen_us/131: http://registernet.passport.net/reg.srf?lc=1033&id=956 → https://login.passport.com/ppsecure/secure.srf?lc=1033&id=10&ru=https://registernet.passport.net/reg.srf%3Flc%3D1033%26id%3D956%26sl%3D1&tw=20&kv=7&ct=1080343292&cb=&checkda=1&msppjph=1&ems=1&seclog=10&ver=2.5.0809.2&tpf=8efe35464f32f67488bfc47aaf806eb2g.msn.com/5meen_us/132: http://register.passport.net/reg.srf?lc=1033&id=956g.msn.com/5meen_us/133: http://messenger.msn-int.com/redirs/EMOTICONS.asp → http://help.msn.com/EN_US/HelpWindow_msg.asp?INI=Messengerv50.ini&H_VER=1.7&Topic=emoticons.htm&H_APP=MSN%20Messengerg.msn.com/5meen_us/140: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/TSG.asp → http://messenger.msn.com/ct/g.msn.com/5meen_us/141: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/CONTACTUS.aspg.msn.com/5meen_us/150: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/SURVEY_FREE.asp → http://feedback.live.com/eform.aspx?productkey=wlmessengerg.msn.com/5meen_us/151: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/SURVEY.asp → http://feedback.live.com/eform.aspx?productkey=wlmessengerg.msn.com/5meen_us/155: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/IE6_DOWNLOAD.ASP → http://g.msn.com/5meen_ms/94g.msn.com/5meen_us/161: http://messenger.msn.com/redirs/MOBILE_LEARN.ASP → http://g.msn.com/5meen_us/167g.msn.com/5meen_us/167: http://mobile.msn.com/?lc=EN-USg.msn.com/5meen_us/177: http://ideas.live.com/programPage.aspx?versionId=7adb59de-a857-45ba-81cc-685ee3e858feg.msn.com/5meen_us/61229: "No such link"