I have many accounts which I frequently use for chatting purposes, Google Talk, Yahoo and MSN to be exact. To refrain from using separate messengers for each of them, I recently installed Pidgin as an integrated medium supporting all the above three (and many more Chat Protocols). My desktop is behind an organization proxy and I myself also have a firewall installed. So I faced a few issues during the configuration. In this post, I would like to present the steps which I followed for configuring Pidgin.
Google Talk: The following are the settings which worked for me.
- Protocol: XMPP
- Domain: gmail.com
- Resource: ……….Anything…….
- Require SSL/TLS: Unchecked
- Force old (port 5223) SSL: Checked
- Connect port: 443
- Connect server: Use any nslookup service and provide the ip for talk.google.com. I used http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php. The ip I got is 209.85.137.125.
- File transfer proxies: proxy.jabber.com
- Proxy type: Depends on your proxy settings.
The below picture shows the Settings for the Advanced Tab.
MSN: The following are the settings which worked for me.
- Server: Use any nslookup service and provide the ip for messenger.hotmail.com. I used http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php. The ip I got is 65.54.239.20.
- Port: 1863
- Use HTTP Method: Checked
- HTTP Method Server: Use any nslookup service and provide the ip for gateway.messenger.hotmail.com. I used http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php. The ip I got is 65.54.239.81.
Yahoo: I have not been able to get Pidgin connect to Yahoo as of now. Alas!
I hope this simple steps will help people who are facing issues configuring Pidgin behind a proxy.
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