As great as Pidgin is, I've now ran across a game-breaking issue.
The story:
I signed up for a project which requires you to be logged into MSN with an
asigned account, in which people contact you anonymously via a web interface.
After adding my new account on Pidgin, people started writing to me, and we
could chat. However, if 60 seconds of idle time passes (nobody sends or is
typing a message), you get a timeout, which is unnoticable unless you try to
send a message in which you get an error returned.
This is very problematic, because it makes keeping a normal paced chat
impossible, and makes me lose contact when the person in question (and I can't
just reopen the chat window since they are logged in using an anonymous ID).
The problem seems to be specific to Pidgin, as I've tried using Empathy IM
between the web interface chat, which is working as it should.
I've also tried to upgrading Pidgin from 2.6.2 to 2.6.6, although the behaviour
persists.
Also, I discovered the that the Pidgin changelog says:
"Timeout switchboard connections aggressively (60 seconds).
"
What does this change mean..? Is there an option for disabling timeouts on MSN?
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