Pidgin - MSN - Proxy

[Tiago.Francisco.Abreu at bportugal.pt]

Hi again.

I was responsible for the proxy. Now, I'm not but it's a person that works
with me. So I have some knowledge.
My company only allows connections for HTTP (80) and HTTPS (443). So 1863
is blocked, and we can't change that (we could but we won’t).
The proxy is configured manually.
The MSN servers are not blocked.
Can someone give me more information regarding the patch that Sascha was
talking?

Thanks everyone, especially Sascha.
TA



                                                                           
             Sascha Vogt                                                   
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Hi,

Tiago.Francisco.Abreu at bportugal.pt schrieb:
> At my work I installed Pidgin in Windows v.2.5.5. My company use a proxy.
> I successfully configured gmail following same information on the web.
> But I can't make MSN work. However I can make Windows Live Messenger v8.1
> work.
>
> Can someone help me?
That depends on the actual problem, maybe only your network admin can
help you.

In case you're company uses a (manually configured) proxy for HTTP(S)
traffic over ports 80 and 443 (and blocks directly connecting without
using the proxy within the firewall), but does not require a proxy for
the rest of outgoing connections, then the problem is the following:
MSN uses two connections, one over port 80 and one over 1863 iirc.

So if you configure a proxy server within Pidgin, access over 1863
fails, due to the Proxy not being accepting connections for that port
and if you don't, connections to port 80 are blocked by the firewall.

At my company this issue has been solved as the proxy is now a
transparent proxy, no need to configure it manually anymore. So I do not
know of a solution, apart changing the network infrastructure.

Greetings
-Sascha-

PS: I remember there was a patch floating around somewhere, but I never
bothered to try it and compile Pidgin myself.


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