Protocols/MSNP/Commands/INF
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INF
This page is historical as this command is not used in any officially supported version of MSNP.
Dispatch and Notification Servers
Sent from the client to get a list of supported authentiction systems employed by the server. One of the supported systems is selected and used in the subsequent Protocols/MSNP/USR command to authenticate.
This command was used in Protocols/MSNP/MSNP2 until MSNP8 when Protocols/MSNP/Tweener was introduced.
Request command
Description
INF trid
Parameters
- trid: Transaction ID
Response command
Description
INF trid system1 system2 systemN
Parameters
- systemN: Name of a supported authentication system. MSNP2 only supported MD5 challenge-response. Later versions of the protocol introduced newer authentication systems.
Example
The INF command is sent as part of an authentication attempt:
>>> INF 3 <<< INF 3 MD5
>>> USR 4 MD5 I testuser@hotmail.com <<< USR 4 MD5 S abcdef
>>> USR 5 MD5 S b63fd5964ebaf07a474c5ff40c64c922 <<< USR 5 OK