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Change purple_url_encode() to not encode . _ - ~ because it's not necessary. Also use capital letters instead of lowercase. RFC3986 says capital letters are a SHOULD and that lowercase letters should be equivalent. AOL's clientlogin authentication requires both of these changes for our signature to match up with the signature generated on AOL's side. Original I had implemented an oscar-specific version of our url encode function with these two changes, but I'm pretty sure it's safe to make this in purple_url_encode(). It looks like it's almost always used to encode pieces of URLs. MSN uses it for a few other things... I tested setting those characters in your friendly name and it works fine.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.