msn connectivity to external proxy

Hi,

Our network only allow HTTP port 80 comms to ourproxy server. MSN does not work.

Is there a way I can assign MSN an external proxy that it can connect to and work??

thanks!!!

Jonathan
Mon Oct 18 18:54:27 CDT 2004

Greetings Ruslan,

You can set up proxy configuration settings by clicking the Tools menu, then Options, then
Connection tab.

However Messenger will attempt to connect on its own on port 80 (but also will need port 443,
for SSL authentication).
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"Ruslan Kogan" <ruslan00@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d562b81c.0410181445.6196be9c@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> Our network only allow HTTP port 80 comms to ourproxy server. MSN does not work.
>
> Is there a way I can assign MSN an external proxy that it can connect to and work??
>
> thanks!!!

ruslan00
Tue Oct 19 01:09:21 CDT 2004

our proxy uses port 8080 and it does not seem to be working with MSN.
Is there anything else I can try??? Could MSN messenger be blocked at
the proxy??