Dynamic port use

[Francois Botha]

Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Mayank Jain Nawal spake unto us the following wisdom:
>   
>> At most of the places chatting is not allowed, to stop users from doing that 
>> port numbers are generally blocked. So are we still using port numbers for 
>> identifying that the traffic belong to specific application (I guess in 
>> pidgin we are are using port numbers). 
>>     
>
> What are you trying to say?  This email does not make sense.
>   
Isn't he trying to say that, when an IM server supports more than one 
port, Pidgin should cycle through all known supported ports and connect 
on the first one available?

I don't agree that it should be done, but I think that's what he means.

regards,
Francois


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/attachments/20080516/ac097f69/attachment-0001.html>