On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, David Woolley <[email protected]>wrote:
> Martin Scotta wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> I've using pidgin behind a proxy and sometimes it stops receiving >> in-comings chats. >> I don't know if it is the proxy, pidgin, or what. >> >> My contacts are not able to chat with me unless I explicit chat first to >> them. >> > > Almost certainly the proxy. You are using an HTTP proxy, which is intended > to be used to access web sites, i.e. with the local end always taking the > initiative. It is almost certainly timing out the connection. Once that > happens, nothing can get back into you until you make a new connection. > > If you hadn't said that it works immediately after you do something, I > would also have been concerned by the fact that it seems to be insisting on > Microsoft style authentication, which isn't well supported by some open > source software. For a long time, Netscape browsers didn't support it, > basically, I think, because Microsoft didn't publish the specification. > > > > -- > David Woolley > Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. > RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, > that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. > Yes, in effect we have a web proxy here. WLM works really fine so, I think pidgin has anything related to this issue. Maybe pidgin is not responsible for this but is a participant necessary. Does pidgin works different than WLM? -- Martin Scotta
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