So for the last two days I haven’t been able to sign onto AIM from home. I’m a Pidgin chat client user so this only applies to those that are as well.
If you’ve been receiving the following message while trying to connect “Received unexpected response from http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession” it means your connection issues are caused by an invalid SSL certificate and you’ll have to disabled SSL for the time being.
Read more about it here on Pidgin’s support site: Pidgin connection problem
Here’s a screenshot of what to look for:
