On Monday 06 February 2006 11:39, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > university has no policy to block IM. But not a single UNIX based > client works. Not even Gaim, Kopete, Yahoo! Messenger for UNIX.
Why? > Needless to say that I have tried using Jabber on Gaim. The simple > reason being that the Windows clients piggyback the IM packets on > HTTP packets and use port 80 for their job, while the UNIX based ones > do not. Hence the problem. What?! If you would've just checked the settings of gaim ( preferences button on the main window ) then under the network option you have several options of choosing a proxy server - SOCKS 4/5 or HTTP. For SQUID you require to use HTTP. You can also authenticate if the proxy server requires login. I am using Fedora Core 2 and Gaim v1.1.2. I had setup SQUID at my place for certain reasons and removed NAT. I had to use the proxy settings and it worked perfectly. Have a look at this too: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q67 I am quite sure Kopete and other messengers have the same settings. There are also other ways of getting them to use HTTP proxies through environmental variables but I am not sure. I hope this solves your problem. > Those who have attended Mark's talk on making GNU/Linux more desktop > friendly, we have to work out solutions that work on Windoze and > GNU/Linux equally well. So do not talk about stuff that require > obscure hacking to make them work. I do not have any problem with > them, but laymen do have problems doing so! No dear. No obscure hacking. Just your regular settings. Ok now heres the bashing: RTFM before you ask a question. Google is your friend. If you can't find help on google only _then_ post on the list. It's for your own good... > I expect an answer to my poblems... Everyone does :) -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
