On 8/10/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I work behind a very restrictive firewall too, and we (people in my org)
> realized that the communication in all the clients is happening over http.
> The clients "tunnel" their protocols over http and hence it works.
> If you use gaim, you may want to go to advanced settings and try giving port
> numbers as 20, 23 and 80 to see if yahoo, gtalk and MSN start working.
Thanks for the interest. But I had tried this in the past and I tried
it just now. Does not work. GMail (on GAIM) simpy said 'port x
tunneling not allowed', while Yahoo (on GAIM) gave a 'write error' for
port 80. Other messages were the same for GTalk.
GAIM would start working out of the box, if the ports are opened. I
know this since the ports were opened temporarily and they just
worked.
From Gaim FAQ :
Yahoo!'s firewall with no proxy option connects to Yahoo! by wrapping
the YMSG protocol inside HTTP. Gaim currently doesn't support doing
this.
So no luck for you Rishi. Yet.
regards,
C
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