File transfer with pidgin

Etan Reisner deryni at pidgin.im
Fri Oct 28 12:26:51 EDT 2011


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:12:19PM +0200, Oliver Ehlebracht wrote:
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> 1.) I've tried file transfer with or without a proxy. In both modes only one file transfer from user A to user B is possible. After transferring a file successfully to user B the menu 'Send File' is no longer available for user B. After disabling/enabling the account of user A the file transfer is possible again (for one file).

That's certainly a new one on me (someone else might be familiar with it
though).

Can you get the Help->Debug Window output from before the first transfer
through a little after the transfer?

> 2.) By using a proxy for file transfer pidgin first tries to connect the remote client directly. After a timeout the connection is switched to my proxy server and file transfer starts. Is it possible to configure an order for file transfer connections, like 'proxy first'?

I don't believe so. This might not be an unreasonable feature request though.

    -Etan




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