Hi again,
The Hangouts 429 (rate limit exceeded) issue is a separate one again (I had
a link just a second ago to the github issue tracker, but lost it again,
sorry), and can happen if you re-authenticate too many times in an hour -
we do a lot of requests at login to build up conversation and
And after leaving the machine for a half hour, came back and it's logged in. So
perhaps this was just Google burping.
-Original Message-
From: Phil Smith III [mailto:phs...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 6:04 PM
To: 'Eion Robb'
Cc: 'Pidgin Support List'
Subject: RE: Skype
Wait, my mistake: it's setting Alternative Login method that works. Still fails
without that. But at least I can connect. Dumb me, changed two things at once,
then realized later.
But still getting the error 429 from Hangouts. But now I'm even more confused:
going back to previous dll didn't
Hmm. Well, if this means the one in a .zip file, dated 8:47PM tonight, then the
good news is, it seems to fix Skype. The bad news is, it breaks Hangouts.
Error seems to be:
Connection error on 054584E0 (reason: 0 description: Invalid HTTP response code
(429))
Full debug log attached.
Hi Phil,
The issue to follow for this is
https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/issues/656
There's a dll with a fix buried near the bottom of the comments, but the
gist is that using the 'Use alternative login method' setting is always
preferred, since it's less unreliable (although not
This has happened before, but following the flowchart always fixed it. I've
done that, logged in on the web using Private Browsing, etc. I'm not using
two-step auth. No change. Nothing fancy in password: it's ten characters, but
all alphanumeric. I installed the latest DLL; no change.
I've
