One server or listeners

[Jorge Villaseñor]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Amit Dvir <azdvir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Developers community,
>
> I am wondering if the application open one session from my computer to a
> server control by pidgin and from the server a st of sessions is opened
> (one for every "application", e.g ICQ, MSN).
>
> In order words, do the application use proxy to connect my computer to the
> IM servers or the connections are from my computer directly to the servers.
>
> BRs,
> Amit
>
>
Pidgin/Libpurple connects directly to the IM service providers (AKA, MS for
MSN, Google for Google talk, Yahoo for Yahoo, whoever for ICQ and AIM).
Libpurple team does not have any server as a proxy or whatever.

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