[Gllug] MSN Behind proxy

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 27 Jan Ashley Evans wrote:
> I'm behind a firewall allowing only port 80 connection and trying to get MSN 
> Messenger to work( for some windows users... ;-) A friend running XP is able 
> to connect to what appers to be messenger.msn.com:80. For some reason I can't 
> get AMSN or CenterICQ to connect. Does anybody have and experience with MSN 
> connections

Apparently newer versions of MSN will tunnel through port 80 - I expect
the version you are using doesn't support this marvellous and well
thought out feature.  

I suggest you ask your network admins to allow access to the standard
MSN ports. 

doug.

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