Hi All, I am currently having some fun and games with squid proxy involving msn messenger 5.0.
I work for an educational institution and our students are currently screaming blue murder that they cant connect to messenger whislt in the computing labs, due to firewalling policy we have in place they cannot make direct connections. The solution therefore is to use the HTTP proxy option within messenger, however version 5 of the client seems to be buggy and not receiving appropriate return data from the cache when it tries to send a POST connection to gateway.messenger.hotmail.com. The access log shows the following connection outbound 1058433606.547 392 131.181.124.137 TCP_MISS/200 287 POST http://gateway.messenger.hotmail.com/gateway/gateway.dll? - DIRECT/207.46.104.20 application/x-msn-messenger I know once this has completed the client should then try to create a CONNECT to login.passport.net using SSL. I have researched very far and wide on this issue and can't seem to find any solution so I am trying here as a last resort, if you have come across this before and know of a fix I would much appreicate you letting me in on the secret as I have no more ideas for a solution, I would really appreciate any help the community is able to offer. One thing I have proven is that if the original request is allowed to go out on port 1863 (the initial POST state) data after this point on CONNECT and GET requests flows through squid correctly. Squid version in use is 2.5-Stable2, no other connectivity issues at all. Cheers, Bradley
