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[Kopete] MSN protocol changes

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seb

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Wednesday, March 31st 2004, 12:16pm

Both windows messenger and kopete connect to the same port and server, being messenger.hotmail.com:1863

Obviously if you can connect via windows then your firewall is not the problem (perhaps the hostname which it allows to connect?). Make sure your local connection allows port 1863 access (if only to messenger.hotmail.com).
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Tux

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Thursday, April 1st 2004, 6:27am

Thanks for your tips Seb.

I agree it is very strange. I forgot to say: the PC is a dual boot. So it use the same hostname, the same Ip, .... Even more strange, kopete was working perfectly before they installed this new firewall. Someone told me that MSN messenger probably connect via http_connect on port 80 which could be the reason why it works under windows

I tryied to ping messenger.hotmail.com but it failed it could also be the reason why :(

Last think, I tryied on another machine and the same things occured

So I hold on and try to find an answer :)

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Thursday, April 1st 2004, 4:37pm

I've been seeing some odd behavior with MSN for about a week now. I'm using version 0.8.1 with KDE 3.2.1 on several different machines.

The behaviour is similar to what has been said already.

I was getting the odd "224" error code, but then it stopped occuring. When that happened my contacts no longer appeared online. The can see me and my status message, I get MSN mailbox notifications. Also they can start chats with me, but I can't send back as they are marked offline.

I haven't made any changes to the client or contacts over the period that this has occurred.

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Friday, April 2nd 2004, 8:51am

you may have too many contacts. Msn limits the number of contacts you have to 150.
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Friday, April 9th 2004, 9:53am

Yeah I'm back again.

I found everywhere that both MSN messenger and kopete (as Seb said) connected onport 1863 which is now blocked by my firewall. Nevertheless MSN Messenger still connect without any problem (excepted it is a bit slow). The only reason I see is that they have implemented the http_connect protocol inside MSN Messenger.

Therefore my question is : is there any plan to implementr this inside kopete ?

Do you know any other "MSN Messenger" like working on port 80 for Linux for sure :p
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