Can't connect to pidgin

[Daniel Atallah]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 19:34, Kristi L. Sekulski
<kls46854 at huskies.bloomu.edu> wrote:
> I just recently bought a new computer and when I downloaded pidgin I for
> some reason can not connect.  A message at the bottom of an empty buddy list
> says that my screen name is disabled and then it says "Received unexpected
> response from http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession: useTLS=1 is
> not allowed for non secure requests."  I have tried re-enabling but it
> doesn't seem to work.  I would appreciate your help.  Thank you!


You're running into the issue that the message on the front page of
http://pidgin.im is intended to address.

-D