> > The way the transport works is like a client on the jabber server. This client logs into the msn server and what it gets back from there it sends throught the wire to the real client (your computer).

> Why not simply move that 'client' to the system of the user?

> > > I have been thinking about writing a jabber client that was actually a proxy, but that would take time :(

> > a http proxy would be good. that way I could use jabber at school. I could go through the http only firewall. :) thats why I got ICQ in the first place. there is a prototype proxt being developed, http://www.jabbercentral.com and search the development section for transports IIRC.

> Is it really a HTTP firewall or is traffic simply restricted to port 80?

I have one connection at work behind an HTTP firewall. quite common in work environments.

pity they don't have a socks proxy.