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On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Alex Taylor wrote:
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> Regarding the firewall. I'm on an iBook SE and I talk to a number of
> people on ICQ, MSN, and AOL. I've gotten the same hang up. You type a
> message, hit enter and the rainbow wheel spins forever. It's done it
> with both MSN and ICQ friends. I don't think that it has ever
> recovered from MSN, Sometimes, if I wait long enough the ICQ message
> will go through. Most of the time I get impatient and force quit and
> start Fire again. It was only recently that I was too busy to bother
> with it and when I went back to Fire, my message had sent and I got a
> reply. It does tend to happen if Fire has been sitting unused for
> awhile.
> Just my observations.
the hang that has been reported (now by 3 or 4 people) involves the
response *never* coming back from msn that the message was sent
correctly.
Since that code is down in the MSN library that we are using, there
wasn't/isn't much we can do about it.
I have heard rumors that the MSN library we use (libmsn) will soon be
replaced in apps like everybuddy with a fresh from the ground up MSN
library. Boy I hope so. then we can move over to it.
I know that having the app spin forever is annoying (I guarantee it
happens to me more than most while I'm testing), but I don't see an easy
fix at all for this ...
Eric
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> On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 06:44 AM, Gregory Lincoln wrote:
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>> I have a very similar problem with a friend of mine. She's the only
>> one I
>> have constant trouble with.
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>> It'll be fine, then it just fails and freezes. I sent a sample to
>> Eric a
>> month or so ago, and he said it looked like Fire was awaiting a
>> response
>> from MSN, and never gets it.
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>> If there is a variable I am aware of, that perhaps you might check
>> with your
>> friend, is if they are behind a proxy or firewall. I was in my friends
>> office trying to figure out what she's got going there, and found their
>> office connection is 100% routed through MS Proxy server. I'm not
>> terribly
>> familiar with it, but all traffic on every open port is routed through
>> that
>> POS. Needless to say, that's why she's now unable to run Fire or even
>> email
>> through her brand new shiny 14" iBook. Setting up SOCKS routing
>> doesn't seem
>> to work.
>>
>> Anyhow, that was the nature of my last message, on whether anyone has
>> gotten
>> fire working behind that hunk-of-junk.
>>
>> Maybe check with the buddy you have issues with and see if they have
>> such a
>> convoluted proxy/firewall setup. Could be inherent.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing more about this. I wouldn't pull so much
>> hair out
>> if I could fix this.
>>
>>> so this problem happens with one person. and it happens on
>>> different occasions. it has happened with a first IM. it's
>>> happened with a third one. it happens with the same person.
>>> this person might have an old version of MSN i'm gunna look
>>> into that.
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