# HG changeset patch
# User Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net>
# Date 1259792875 0
# Node ID 5e11c572d730bc8c7d08a34e9d666bf27dd96d13
# Parent  41656cf6af7ac3185043828976978e94ee51dd24
This magic number is documented in oscar.h, but it makes sense to
document it here, too

diff -r 41656cf6af7a -r 5e11c572d730 libpurple/protocols/oscar/clientlogin.c
--- a/libpurple/protocols/oscar/clientlogin.c	Wed Dec 02 22:21:30 2009 +0000
+++ b/libpurple/protocols/oscar/clientlogin.c	Wed Dec 02 22:27:55 2009 +0000
@@ -275,7 +275,10 @@
 	char *query_string, *signature, *url;
 	gboolean use_tls = purple_account_get_bool(purple_connection_get_account(od->gc), "use_ssl", OSCAR_DEFAULT_USE_SSL);
 
-	/* Construct the GET parameters */
+	/*
+	 * Construct the GET parameters.  0x00000611 is the distid given to
+	 * us by AOL for use as the default libpurple distid.
+	 */
 	query_string = g_strdup_printf("a=%s"
 			"&distId=%d"
 			"&f=xml"