Agreed. If you need to do something drastic, try subclassing or overriding key functions to get what you want.

As another poster noted, the AIM protocol has...problems. It's a moving target and some parts are poorly documented. Fortunately, changing a password associated with an AIM handle can be done at AOL's web site. (Maybe a call out to the web to do what you want...or just leave it alone.)

I've noticed that in the Author's website there's the TOC protocol definition, which is used by AIM.

Changing passwords is not mentioned in this protocol, so you might be out of luck.

Anyway, if you'd like some additional features and you can't implement them yourself, why not contact the author? Most, if not all, of the CPAN authors are incredibly helpful and willing to take your suggestions into consideration.

If you decide to improve the module yourself, consider submitting the changes to the author, so that he can put them in the next version, thus preventing the module from "forking", thus helping the world to be a better place.

-- TMTOWTDI

Just by pure coincidence, I noticed that the CPAN Nodelet says that the new Net::Oscar is out. I browsed the documentation and this module allows you to change the password as you need.

Happy instant messaging!

-- TMTOWTDI

If you read through the TOC protocol commands listen here. There is a change password command. This isn't directly implemented in Net::AIM, but send() is, so you can use send() to send this TOC command to the server. YOu don't have to switch protocols. Happy botting! ~B

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