Does not Connect behind ISA Server

Daniel Atallah daniel.atallah at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 10:12:00 EST 2008


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Edilson <johnarevalo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I'm trying to connect to MSN from Debian GNU/Linux (Lenny/x86_64).
> i've compiled Pidgin 2.5.2. Machine is behind Microsoft ISA Proxy
> server[1].
>
> in Connection process appears this log messages and failed to connect:
>

<snip />

> (09:15:34) proxy: Connecting to gateway.messenger.hotmail.com:80 via
> 192.168.18.25:8080 using SOCKS5
> (09:15:34) socks5 proxy: Connection in progress
> (09:15:34) socks5 proxy: Connected.
> (09:15:40) util: Writing file accounts.xml to directory /home/jearevalo/.purple
> (09:15:40) util: Writing file /home/jearevalo/.purple/accounts.xml
> (09:17:34) socks5 proxy: Able to read.
> (09:17:34) proxy: Connection attempt failed: Se perdió la conexión con
> el servidor:
> Conexión reinicializada por la máquina remota
> (09:17:34) msn: HTTP: Connection error: Se perdió la conexión con el servidor:
> Conexión reinicializada por la máquina remota

<snip />

> Does it need special configuration behind this proxy?. Thanks for your replies.

It sounds like your proxy configuration in Pidgin is incorrect - it is
expecting to connect to a SOCKS5 proxy, but isn't ISA always a HTTP
proxy?

-D




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