Proxy servers and Adium MSN...

dfunct · Post by **dfunct** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:13 pm

Hi,

I'm not so sure that this is a bug in Adium (which is why I'm not posting in trac) but I've noticed that I can't get it to connect an MSN account using a proxy server reliably , sometimes it'll work but for most of the time it won't.

I managed to get the official MSN client (6.0.3) working without any changing of settings but I'm a bit miffed I can't make all my new uni friends semi jealous of Adium, plus I miss the ease of use it has compared to the offical client.

I can provide details and log files if needed

Thanks for looking

James

dfunct · Post by **dfunct** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:41 pm

Nobody can help me with this?

I'm pulling my hair out using the official client, I miss my tabbed chats!

Post by **evands** » Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:18 pm

What version of Adium are you using? What settings are you using for MSN and for the proxy server? What type of proxy server? What happens instead of it working?

dfunct · Post by **dfunct** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:04 pm

What version of Adium are you using? What settings are you using for MSN and for the proxy server? What type of proxy server? What happens instead of it working?

Latest Stable (but can replicate with the 1.2SVN) using the normal settings for MSN, it's configured to use "Systemwide proxy settings", not sure what kind of proxy (It may well be Squid) but I don't have any kind of administrative access to it because it's the universities. Instead of it working it just refuses to connect.

I've submitted a ticket about it here: http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/8168

Robke · Post by **Robke** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:05 pm

I'm having a similar problem, with a Cisco proxy at work. I'll have a look monday which type it is and try the latest svn version.
Meanwhile, Live Messenger in VMWare connects just fine.

Robke · Post by **Robke** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:15 am

So… It's not working with the svn version.
The only thing I can find about the proxy is that it is "Application and Content Networking System Software 5.4.1", by Cisco.
Edit: Anyway, I guess this is a problem with libpurple.

dfunct · Post by **dfunct** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:51 pm

tom22 · Post by **tom22** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:51 pm

I had this same problem - could connect to MSN with the official client, however Adium (and other clients based of libpurple) wouldn't connect.

Not sure if this work for anyone else, but I found a app called 'Authoxy' fixed this problem for me. It's a bit of a pain to set up, and it's not 100% okay with Leopard (the pref pane is a bit dodgy but the actual background process works fine).

You can find authoxy here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10899

Hope that helps!

EDIT: I forgot to say, it's very important you read the Read me file found on the disk image! You have to change some network settings (I recommend creating a new network location for Authoxy)

Robke · Post by **Robke** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 10:05 am

Thanks for the tip! Working fine.

dignick · Post by **dignick** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:08 am

Authoxify works, but in leopard startauthoxify.app crashes so I can't start it on login and it doesn't remember the details I entered in the preference pane. This should just work in adium/libpurple instead. Is this a known bug? Is it being worked on? If not, how should it be reported?

dignick · Post by **dignick** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:36 pm