On Monday 06 February 2006 11:39, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
university has no policy to block IM. But not a single UNIX based client works. Not even Gaim, Kopete, Yahoo! Messenger for UNIX.
Why?
Needless to say that I have tried using Jabber on Gaim. The simple reason being that the Windows clients piggyback the IM packets on HTTP packets and use port 80 for their job, while the UNIX based ones do not. Hence the problem.
What?! If you would've just checked the settings of gaim ( preferences button on the main window ) then under the network option you have several options of choosing a proxy server - SOCKS 4/5 or HTTP. For SQUID you require to use HTTP. You can also authenticate if the proxy server requires login. I am using Fedora Core 2 and Gaim v1.1.2. I had setup SQUID at my place for certain reasons and removed NAT. I had to use the proxy settings and it worked perfectly.
Have a look at this too: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q67
I am quite sure Kopete and other messengers have the same settings. There are also other ways of getting them to use HTTP proxies through environmental variables but I am not sure.
I hope this solves your problem.
Those who have attended Mark's talk on making GNU/Linux more desktop friendly, we have to work out solutions that work on Windoze and GNU/Linux equally well. So do not talk about stuff that require obscure hacking to make them work. I do not have any problem with them, but laymen do have problems doing so!
No dear. No obscure hacking. Just your regular settings.
Ok now heres the bashing: RTFM before you ask a question. Google is your friend. If you can't find help on google only _then_ post on the list. It's for your own good...
I expect an answer to my poblems...
Everyone does :)