On Monday 06 February 2006 19:38, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > People have given me loads of 'gyan' on how to configure Gaim, Kopete > and the like. Let me tell you friends, I have spent the better half > of a year trying to configure them, I have tried the so-called normal > easy settings. They do not work. I can not comment on people who > claim to have got them working from behind a SQUID proxy, but in my > case they do not work. The proxy blocks ports such as 5050 and 5222, > which are directly used by Google Talk and Yahoo!, and since our > sysadmin left its not possible to get them opened. At this point let > me point out that my purpose was to make a post to help out others, > and not seek help for myself. If you find it unacceptable, then very > well, but do not spoil the fresh air. As one of the members have > pointed out, I can do some hacking on Gaim by downloading its source > code, etc.. I am already on my way my dear friend! And by the way I > had tried contacting Google long time back but to no avail. I > definitely find your patronosing attitude exteremely disgusting. But > do you realise that there are scores of people who do not give a damn > about hacking Gaim, who would love to use GNU/Linux if only they had > an easy way to solve some of their problems.
Look. If those proxy settings dont work on Linux then nothing probably will. If windows clients use HTTP proxy to get their messages through Squid then Linux clients should as well. If they dont work then you need to use ethereal / tcpdump to understand what the heck is going on. Tough luck. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
