*Correction, it appears due to certificate warnings, we switched to using
TCP for connection type.  From what I remember this was unencrypted, but it
fixed the issues were were having at the time.

-Tres


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Tres Finocchiaro <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Have you been able to reproduce this error on Windows?  I used Pidgin +
> SIPE for years in a Windows and Ubuntu environment without any major issues.
>
> The login format was the biggest catch for me.  Here are the settings I
> used:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/34SLt2n.png
> http://i.imgur.com/naF9ZeA.png
>
> Also, depending on your build of Linux, you may be able to find
> precompiled binaries.  At the time I wrote my 
> tutorial<http://tresdev.blogspot.com/2009/08/pidgin-microsoft-office-communicator.html>they
>  were all unofficial repos, but it appears most distros have
> precompiled SIPE binaries now, usually under the package name "pidgin-sipe".
>
> Alternatively, you may have luck switching from TLS to NTLM or Kerberos,
> but I was only successful with TLS, which you are already trying.
>
> -Tres
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Jeff Eberl <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to use pidgin to connect to our office communicator server. I
>> have to use a proxy. This problem shows up when I first start pidgin, and
>> through a day or so of trial and error, I connected once, but I think that
>> was a fluke because I couldn't connect on the restart, and following the
>> steps I had just taken didn't make any difference (I deleted everything in
>> my .pudgin/certificates folder).
>>
>> Versions:
>> Pidgin: 2.6.6
>> libpurple: 2.6.6
>> gnutls: 2.4.1
>> pidgin-sipe: 1.11.2 or 1.16.1, both built from source.
>>
>> Usually, the main GUI says either "Read Error" or "Write Error". The logs
>> (with PURPLE_GNUTLS_DEBUG=7) show a message like this:
>>
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* lvl 7: READ: Got 0 bytes from 14
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* lvl 7: READ: read 0 bytes from 14
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* lvl 7: 0000 -
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* lvl 2: ASSERT: gnutls_buffers.c:638
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* lvl 3: XXX[]: ret: 0 Success.
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* lvl 3: XXX2[]: ret: 0 Success.
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* lvl 2: ASSERT: gnutls_record.c:921
>> (15:22:37) *gnutls:* receive failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length
>> was received.
>> (15:22:37) *connection:* Connection error on 0x2b831d1ec9f0 (reason: 0
>> description: Read error)
>>
>> or if it's a write error:
>>
>> (15:06:42) gnutls: lvl 7: WRITE: Will write 693 bytes to 15.
>> (15:06:42) gnutls: lvl 2: ASSERT: gnutls_buffers.c:835
>> (15:06:42) gnutls: lvl 2: ASSERT: gnutls_record.c:460
>> (15:06:42) gnutls: send failed: Error in the push function.
>> (15:06:42) sipe: transport_canwrite_cb: written <= 0, exiting
>> (15:06:42) connection: Connection error on 0x2b9bedc20fd0 (reason: 0
>> description: Write error)
>>
>> I'm assuming this is my problem. I don't see anything else that's as
>> consistent.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Jeff
>>
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>
>
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