One server or listeners

[Amit Dvir]

Thanks for the quick answer. Are you familiar with other IM application
that using proxy and not connects directly?

2014-09-22 23:26 GMT+03:00 Jorge Villaseñor <salinasv at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> --
> Masca
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
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>


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