Questions tagged [aol]

acronym for America Online

AOL (previously known as America Online) is an American global Internet services and media company.

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What is the format of compose links to web mail clients such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and AOL?

In my application, I'm currently using mailto: links to open email compose dialogs. This is terrible for web mail users, since it typically causes Outlook or Apple Mail to launch into their setup wizard. Until I've implemented a separate compose…
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How do you get AOL's OpenID site verification to work?

I have an OpenID relying party setup and using XRDS. It passes the "RP has discoverable return_to" interop test over at http://test-id.org/RP/DiscoverableReturnTo.aspx. Yahoo no longer complains with the message "Warning: This website has not…
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Is there any AOL Contacts API?

Is there any oAuth based AOL contacts API available just like google contacts, yahoo contacts and live contacts APIs. If so then can anybody redirect me to their link please? I cannot seem to find any AOL contacts API info on their website.
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PHP connect to AIM TOC

In the middle of 2010, I found a class library called PHPToCLib. It ran flawlessly for over a year - I was able to implement a tremendous amount of my own, custom code into a an AIM Bot that I could run from my CMD Prompt. However, near the end of…
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Anyone that had the aol oauth api working?

i'm developing an application with multiple login and information export options like yahoo, google contacts, live contacts etc. I tried to do the oauth wrapper for aol, followed the examples in the http://dev.aol.com/api/openauth page but it doesnt…
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How do "professional" IM bots avoid being kicked off line or locked out?

I'm looking to develop a scalable IM bot (aka Automated Service Agent). It's been done before and I'm wondering what methods are used to maintain reliability. I see two immediate problems with scaling: 1) On AIM, you can be kicked off if too many…
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How to get client id and client secret required to access AOL APIs?

I want to work with AOL.com API. For this purpose I need to get client_id(developer Id) and client_secret But I cant find where and how can I get this ID, I checked this site but I didn't find anything. Any idea how can I get client_id(developer Id)…
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AOL Rejecting email sent via PHP mail (error 5.2.1)

Recently AOL has started rejecting emails sent from my production server. Customers make product enquiries through my site and can "cc" themselves if they wish. I check for spam (e.g. don't send if request contains banned phrases, urls, etc).…
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Developer API key issue for AOL

I am creating one new application using AOL login. For this I require developer api keys.I get the api keys for Facebook,twitter . But for aol.com , when I open dev.aol.com it redirects to www.aol.com always. Please anybody suggest me how to get APi…
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get aol contacts using oauth api

If there is aol api for oauth is available. What i want is to import aol contacts using oauth. I got such a api of google, yahoo & hotmail. Hotmail gives me email hashes instead of email ids. So ,i also ask question that if there is some way to get…
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Changing Font Color in HTML Email for AOL Mail

EDIT: I should mention that the layout was done with tables. I've even tried styling the parent element to get the desired appearance. Still, no bananas. How do you change the font color of text in an HTML email in AOL's client? I've tried the…
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AOL9.0 and continuously sent AJAX requests

We have a campaign up and running that collects clicks. Over 50,000 clicks have been recorded from 2 different IP addresses, both with the user-agent's set to AOL9.0. I was wondering if there is a known AOL9.0 + AJAX issue or if someone is just…
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AOL openid website verification

Iam trying to use AOL openid, nut am getting "AOL is unable to verify this website" can somebody tell me the steps to avoid this error, what should I don on my end. If there is some sample code please share it - thanks in…
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Error while importing contacts from AOL

I am trying to import all my AOL Email contacts in my web application. For that I am using cardmagic gem given at I forked the code & replaced following code AOL_NUM = "29970-343" # this seems to change each time they change the…
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Aol mail subject special characters not showing correctly

For sending wishes for an event like Administrative Professionals Day® I try to send mail vai all the mail providers to my users and the receivers are getting email subject correctly except the AOL mail providers the special characters(the register…
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