[Ilugc] gaim, jabber not working in firewalled environment

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:47:35AM +0530, Sridhar R wrote:
> BTW, I'm wondering about making gaim work in a firewall-enabled
> environment (only port 80 is allowed).  Yahoo messenger seems to be
> using http tunnelling for transport, but jabber or gaim/yahoo doesn't
> seem to support this.
> 
> the result .. barriers for switching to open source software (ym->gaim
> for eg.) in our department.

You can't set GAIM to go through a proxy server?