Bug 71030 – Gaim errors on login to the msn network, Not the SSL issue

• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description spiffy 2004-11-12 20:58:55 UTC]

While attempting to login into the msn messenger network using Gaim, the client will login for approxamitly 3 seconds before returning to the login screen with the following error " Unable to write to msn server via HTTP (error 9)"

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set up an MSN account
2.attempt to login

Actual Results:  
Error box with the message "cannot write to msn server via http (error 9)"

Expected Results:  
logged into the msn network

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
2.6.9-ck3 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.9-ck3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fforce-addr -s -frename-registers
-finline-functions -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fforce-addr -s -frename-registers
-finline-functions -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/
ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/etc/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex X alsa apm avi bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cdrom codecs crypt
cups divx4linux dvd dvdread encode esd foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gif gimp
gimpprint gnome gpm gtk gtk2 i8x0 imlib java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww lzo
lzw lzw-tiff mad mmap mmx mmxext motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer msn ncurses nptl
nptlonly nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png posix ppds psyco
pthreads python rtc ruby speex sse ssl tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint
xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-11-28 14:47:13 UTC]

Are you trying to use the HTTP method in gaim?  I'm pretty sure that is broken.  Let me know for sure what you're trying to do.

[Comment 2 spiffy 2004-11-29 11:33:11 UTC]

How can i tell if im using the HTTP method?

[Comment 3 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-11-29 12:21:53 UTC]

By default it won't.  To try it (which shouldn't work anyway), edit your MSN account and click the "Show more options" and check "Enable HTTP method".

[Comment 4 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 12:43:30 UTC]

Haven't heard in two weeks.  Hollar back if you still have problems.

[Comment 5 spiffy 2004-12-13 12:46:18 UTC]

Completely forgot, somehow the HTTP method was enabled.