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[gaim-migrate @ 4546] This changes to authorization cookie from a fixed length of 0x0100 bytes to a dynamic length. The cookie AOL sends is always 0x0100 bytes, but there was a bug report saying, "I found that Gaim doesn't work with iserverd because it uses hardcoded authorization cookie length. Why don't you use TLV length value as auth cookie length ? ICQ2k+ and winaim works without problems with 64 byte cookies... AOL can just change cookie len and gaim will became useless..." I don't know about useless... but he does have a point. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)