google talk file transfers

[Daniel Atallah]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:13 PM, David Woodfall<dave at unrealize.co.uk> wrote:
> On (11:00 09/07/09), Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im> put forth the
> proposition:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:36 AM, <David at localhost.localdomain> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyone know if there is a problem with this and how to fix it?
>>>
>>> Whenever someone tries to send me a file it says I cancelled.
>>
>> File transfers to the google client will not currently work because
>> they use a different file transfer method than what Pidgin currently
>> supports.
>
> What about between 2 pidgin clients? This is the case here. (Just
> managed to get a friend off msn messenger onto pidgin).

This would work if you were connected directly to the internet, had
external inbound ports mapped to your machine or had a working file
transfer proxy specified (this needs to be done manually because the
google servers don't provide one).  The previous default manual file
transfer proxy (proxy.jabber.org) doesn't work, you can try
"proxy.eu.jabber.org".

In 2.6.0, when in-band transfers work, this scenario should work out
of the box (granted it will be slow because the transfer will go
through the servers).

-D