Hi,

Ray Jackson wrote:
> http://dev.openwengo.com/trac/openwengo/trac.cgi/ticket/1766
> 
> MSN chat has been broken in WengoPhone for over a month now, but
> apparently a very simple patch has been posted on the associated pidgin
> ticket (and the pidgin ticket is now closed/fixed).  The patch would
> apparently be a one liner in \libgaim\protocols\msn\httpconn.c (line 728)

The problem is not actually that easy - you also need to go into
Pidgin's advanced configuration, and set
gateway.messenger.hotmail.com:80 as the MSN server for the client. This
ability to configure a server & port was never made available in the
wengophone's UI, for the simple reason that it was considered
unnecessary for 99.999% of users. It's now a workaround to a problem
with the way Pidgin handles a part of the MSN protocol (which refers to
another host for the actual message transport, rather than using
gateway.messenger).

Also, this problem only affects people using MSN over HTTP - which
includes all Wengo users (since that option was the one which always
worked, why offer people the possibility to configure it?). Since this
bug, Julien Bossart has added the ability to connect to MSN directly in
the 2.2 branch, which addresses the problem for MSN users not behind a
firewall.

Julien's now looking for the best way to solve this problem permanently
- which may be to allow the server configurability as it's done in
Pidgin, but I suspect that they'll find a better and less hacky way to
get around that problem.

Not *quite* as simple as a one line patch (although I thought so too,
initially - see my mail on the subject last week).

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
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