G-Talk w/version 2.4.0

[Etan Reisner]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 05:03:30AM -0700, Merkaba wrote:
<snip>
> I've also discovered that my Google Talk account is far more susceptible to
> disconnects in Pidgin 2.4.0.  I know that at various points this weekend I
> was unable to connect to Google Talk using any Jabber clients such as
> Pidgin, Gajim, etc.
>
> I get the following messages in my debug window when I get disconnected from
> Google Talk:
>
> (13:54:56) account: Disconnecting account 01AD1758
> > (13:54:56) connection: Disconnecting connection 06570320
> > (13:54:56) connection: Deactivating keepalive.
> > (13:54:56) jabber: jabber_actions: have pep: YES
> > (13:54:56) connection: Destroying connection 06570320
>
> I've deleted my old Google talk account and re-added it to no avail.  Using
> 2.3.1. I've got no problems with it.  Both my Google Talk and Jabber
> accounts show error messages in Pidgin.  Google Talk receives an error code
> 501 while my Jabber account receives an error code 503.

If the XML stanzas immediately before you get disconnected talk about
urn:xmpp:ping then this is pidgin thinking your connection to the server
was disconnected and pinging you out, the 20 second timeout has since been
increased to 120 seconds and will be in the next version.

    -Etan