An easy explaination is that your software firewall was programmed by it's author to know about and allow Google's program, but was not programmed by it's author to know about and allow Pidgin. socket error #10060 means the application was not allowed by the sockets layer to open a socket with which to connect outbound. Configure your firewall to stop blocking pidgin.
On Nov 7, 2007 12:02 PM, John Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hpbrad wrote: > > When i loaded up Pidgin today i keep getting this error message... > > > > Could not establish a connection with the server: > > Windows socket error #10060 > > > > I am running the most recent version of Pidgin (2.2.2?) and it was > working > > just fine yesterday... nothing has changed since then. > > > > please help. > > Windows socket error #10060 indicates that you have a problem with your > network. > Pidgin isn't able to make a connection. You probably have some sort of > software firewall such as the one in Norton Internet Security installed. > In > that case, you'll need to fix the broken firewall. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > [email protected] > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > >
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