Pidgin behind Proxy

[Martin Scotta]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, David Woolley
<forums at david-woolley.me.uk>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> David Woolley
> Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
> RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
> that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
>

Yes, in effect we have a web proxy here.

WLM works really fine so, I think pidgin has anything related to this issue.
Maybe pidgin is not responsible for this but is a participant necessary.

Does pidgin works different than WLM?

-- 
Martin Scotta
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