Pidgin behind Proxy

[David Woolley]

Martin Scotta wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've using pidgin behind a proxy and sometimes it stops receiving 
> in-comings chats.
> I don't know if it is the proxy, pidgin, or what.
> 
> My contacts are not able to chat with me unless I explicit chat first to 
> them.

Almost certainly the proxy.  You are using an HTTP proxy, which is 
intended to be used to access web sites, i.e. with the local end always 
taking the initiative.  It is almost certainly timing out the 
connection.  Once that happens, nothing can get back into you until you 
make a new connection.

If you hadn't said that it works immediately after you do something, I 
would also have been concerned by the fact that it seems to be insisting 
on Microsoft style authentication, which isn't well supported by some 
open source software.  For a long time, Netscape browsers didn't support 
it, basically, I think, because Microsoft didn't publish the specification.



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