[Ti] iChat v Yahoo! Messenger

[Sam Moussly]

I had a similar issue before here in Dubai.

Try changing the proxy port to 30.

Good luck
On Apr 21, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

> At 18:34 -0400 20/4/05, Alan Thompson wrote:
>> Perhaps iChat does not "protocol hop" like the Yahoo! IM client does. 
>>  It's really difficult to block IM on your network - you can't simply 
>> block outgoing traffic on the popular IM UDP ports - the clients will 
>> try to just use another port, most likely port 80 - which is 
>> typically open for web traffic.  Do you use a proxy server for 
>> anything while you are in Saudi?
>> On Apr 20, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>>
>>> I have never been able to get iChat to work from here in Saudi 
>>> Arabia.
>>> I downloaded Yahoo! Messenger for OS X, launched it, and it worked 
>>> straight away..........
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any idea about the workings of iChat and Yahoo! 
>>> Messenger, that could explain this unexpected result?
>
> Alan - my ISP (I could change, as there is no subscription basis) is 
> now SaudiNet.  I have used about 5 differnet ISP so far, without any 
> difference as far as iChat is concerned.
>
> I use PROXY.SAUDI.NET.SA:8080 for my proxy.
>
>> Perhaps iChat will not try to do this, and will only try to 
>> communicated on specific designated ports?
>       iChat uses Port 5190 (the Prefs say) to connect to the AIM 
> server login.oscar.aol.com
>
> regards,  Trevor
>
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