Home networking question, but some of you might know enough of it.
My proxy at home, Winproxy, is a given. The list of protocols it supports (www.winproxy.cz; not .com, that’s a competing product with same name…) is
HTTP (WWW)
FTP
GOPHER
HTTPS (SSL)
Telnet
NNTP
SMTP
POP3
Real Audio
Mapped Links
SOCKS
Now for my wife and her friends I need to find a working chat solution. And you guessed it, my wife
‘s PC has no direct Internet link but through the Winproxy.
All participants are ‘blank’, nothing installed yet. We are talking primarily about one-to-one chats, so no public chatrooms needed.
I looked at ICQ. Functionality is perfect, BUT it requires special TCP ports (5190 for first contact and then a whole range for the private session). Will not work with my Winproxy, it looks.
Any votes for an alternative, one-to-one, chat program with more moderate firewall/proxy requirements? E.g. on simple HTTP or sockets? Freeware or shareware recommended…
Tnx in advance,
