Problem with MSN transport

Good Day!

We have downloaded gateway plugin for our wildfire server and tried to set transports up.

ICQ Transport has worked both for Spart and Miranda Client.

MSN Transpot hasn’'t worked both for Spark and Miranda.

Wildfire Version 3.1.1

Gateway Plugin Version - 1.0 Beta 5a

There is a log from Wildfire server (i just closed domain)

2006.11.16 12:34:02 Received iq packet:

Hi, I don’‘t really see what’‘s wrong here. The bad request is a reply to the vcard request which, yes, is not permitted right now because we don’‘t support vcards. =) (most clients don’'t seem to bother asking before trying vcard requests, theoretically one would actually do a disco request)

Am I to assume though that you aren ot properly logging in to MSN? I keep seeing smatterings of “MSN isn’'t working, MSN screwed us again!” messages, but then someone found on their website where they actually said “we are experiencing an outage”. So yeah. =)

I don’‘t have enough experience with MSN, moreover I don’‘t have enough experience with Transports provided by Jabber Server, but i’'m the user who need the problem to be resolved.

I can provide you as much information as you want and I can.

Thanks,

So were you confused about the log entry? (thought there was a real failure) Or were you flat out not able to log in?

I wasn’'t able to log into MSN via transport.

Transport is available at disco. User can be registered via transport but user can’'t log in to the MSN network.

I looked for log in order to find out is it problem trivial or not. Maybe something with permissions or settings. That was a reason why i have posted log with error code which i can’'t locate as user environment problem.

Hrm. There is a chance that MSN “changed something” and just messed us up. Anyone else having login issues with MSN that aren’'t related to typing in the wrong username/password?

… i have been able to login … but I am writing my own client so … I dont know about the vcard thing … but for me … if I do provide a valid username and pass … it does log me in …

Oh, lol, guess you explained right there which client you are using … your own! ;D

FYI folk:

http://www.adiumx.com/blog/2006/11/msn-behaving-badly.php

just for information. on server PC i can use MSN Messenger without any problem. So this problem may be related only to:

  1. your plugin

  2. only service provided by MSN

  3. and probably wildfire core.

Doubtful as:

  1. I am having problems with real MSN messenger clients both under Windows and Mac

  2. Adium X and Gaim folk are actively seeing problems

  3. There’‘s a message on MSN’‘s site somewhere actually indicating that they we having issues. (I’'ll post that link if I stumble upon it again)

It’‘s kind of interesting that some folk are seeing it and some aren’‘t. For example, one of my test accounts sees it every time, relentlessly. Typically have to connect once from a real msn client and then connect again before I actually get logged in. Whereas my main account hasn’'t had any problems what-so-ever.

I have problems loggin into the msn transport using a passport.com account. I can register with my regular hotmail account with no problems. However, when i use my @passport.com account with the msn transport, the transport says i have correctly registered but the status shows “disconnected”. In the admin console, the last login date=never. No errors are displayed to the client or the server. This account works fine with the microsoft msn client.

Message was edited by: snowman386

snowman386 wrote:

I have problems loggin into the msn transport using a passport.net account. I can register with my regular hotmail account with no problems. However, when i use my @passport.net account with the msn transport, the transport says i have correctly registered but the status shows “disconnected”. In the admin console, the last login date=never. No errors are displayed to the client or the server. This account works fine with the microsoft msn client.

That is very interesting information! Hrm… I wonder if passport.net accounts connect in a different manner for whatever reason.

Sorry, i meant passport.com. I had .net on the brain. Regardless of my typo, i will create a msn account without a hotmail.com or passport.com address from microsoft and see what happens.

Seems my problem was not with the passport.com account. The problem is when i register, it registers successfully but in a disconnected state. I have to close the client and reopen for the msn transport to become active. Restarting the msn transport seemed to work too. Very strange.

Very strange. The transport should be probing your status right after you register to see if you are currently online. =/