{"id":938,"date":"2009-09-11T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=938"},"modified":"2024-01-01T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T18:44:56","slug":"google-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/google-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Talk &#038; Pidgin (deprecated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first attempted this in August 2008. I have successfully configured Pidgin 2.0.1 to act as a client although in one case I have two channels between me and my correspondent. One of the reasons was to have a second <b>XMPP<\/b> chat service to test my problems with Pidgin and my work&#8217;s <b>XMPP<\/b> server. See <a title=\"on this wiki\" href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/pidgin\/\">Pidgin<\/a> on this site, and I have written this up on my old Sun blog, at an article called google talk and pidgin, published on <em>10th October 2008<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Pidgin<\/h3>\n<p>I have not been able to login to Google talk using Pidgin on my Windows XP SP3 desktop, and have problems using the same version on the laptop. I am using Pidgin 2.5.1. I have no google mail and so use gmail.com as my domain. I obtained a handle using the google talk gadget and can connect to correspondents using Pidgin 2.0.1, which I use on another laptop, using these parameters and my usual password.<\/p>\n<p>I have set<\/p>\n<div>\n<pre>Require SSL\/TLS = No\r\nForce Old Port = Yes\r\nConnect Port = 443\r\nConnect Server = talk.google.com<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>and USE GLOBAL PROXY, which I believe is unset, as are the enviromental settings.<\/p>\n<p>I am behind a broadband router which has NAT functionality. Do I need to open any ports on the external firewall.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently getting a read error.<\/p>\n<p>I am also trying to connect to another XMPP server, which isn&#8217;t a problem with Pidgin V2.0.1<\/p>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/talk\/bin\/answer.py?answer=24073\">Google &gt;&gt; Support &gt;&gt; Answers &gt;&gt; Talk &gt;&gt; Pidgin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/3rd-Party-Clients\/topics\">Google Talk &gt;&gt; Help &gt;&gt; Discuss &gt;&gt; 3rd party clients &gt;&gt; topics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/3rd-Party-Clients\/browse_thread\/thread\/d1dd627a180e9abf#\">Google Talk &gt;&gt; Help &gt;&gt; Discuss &gt;&gt; 3rd party clients &gt;&gt;googletalk won&#8217;t work on pidgin<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have contributed to the latter thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first attempted this in August 2008. I have successfully configured Pidgin 2.0.1 to act as a client although in one case I have two channels between me and my correspondent. One of the reasons was to have a second XMPP chat service to test my problems with Pidgin and my work&#8217;s XMPP server. See&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27,3],"tags":[292,1184,294,54,293,296,920,911,295],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-technology","tag-chat","tag-deprecated","tag-google-talk","tag-howto","tag-messaging","tag-pidgin","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-xmpp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/deprecated-dfl1955-cc0-w1080.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10081,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/10081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}