What do we need for YMSG15?

Ayttm needs to go on to YMSG15. So I decided to do a small test to see what could break if we just change the protocol version sent to Yahoo. So I advanced the protocol version from 0x00000c to 0x00000f in libyahoo2. Also, I enabled debugging in libyahoo2 so that it could dump packets that it did not recognize. Here's my brain dump of the little experiment:

• Some packet numbered as 0xef. Don't know what that is
• File transfer will change, as I had seen from the last time I had fixed file transfer for YMSG12
• Gennady Feldman had added some service codes into the libyahoo2 for YMSG13, which seem to be coming in due to the move to YMSG15. The 0xf0 and 0xf1 above are a result of that. Also, messages to rename groups and move contacts between groups seem to have changed
• I got a 0xf0 message, which seems to be a list of buddy statuses, including mine
• A 0xf1 message, which seems to be the complete list of buddies. So I don't really need to fetch them from cab.yahoo.com, do I?
• Another thing that seems changed but did not affect me this time around seems to be the login procedure. I'm planning to move to YMSG16 for that since I have more complete information on how it can be implemented.
• To get YMSG16, I need SSL. To get SSL, I need to update libyahoo2 to move to netv2. So obviously this needs to go into the netv2 branch

netv2 does not seem to be ready just yet, Philip had problems getting gmail to work with netv2. There's a bit of tightrope walking with multiple threads and SSL. Hopefully I can figure out what the deal is since almost everything is starting to use SSL. Does anyone want to get their hands dirty on netv2?

But couldn't I just open up libpurple and get that stuff in? Yes, but it won't be fun enough would it? :)

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