google talk file transfers

[David Woodfall]

On (13:58 09/07/09), Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im> put forth the proposition:
>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".

I have set up my router to forward port 8010 to my laptop and set up
pidgin to listen to that port. I also put in a stun server and it now
shows my external IP address. I'm just waiting for him to come back
online at the moment so we can test.

I did try using the proxy.eu.jabber.org server yesterday but it didn't
seem to work either.

>
>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).
>

I take it that irc file transfers will be direct. Are there any other
protocols that pidgin can do direct transfers with, rather that going
through a server?

Thanks for your help so far by the way. Appreciated.

>-D
>
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