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Getting Live Messenger to work through the Web Appliance?

sssstew

Hi All

Just taken over some admin of the Sophos Web Appliance which is new to me, ive used Websense before, but im trying to configure the web appliance to allow Live Messenger (for us in IT), but cannot figure out how to get it to work, the messenger client just fails to sign in each time.


So far i have created an Additional Policy called Internet Access Full which my user account is a member of which has most of the site categories set to allow, including chat which i thought would fix it but we still cannot sign in on the application.

Is there any special config anywhere for this?

Thanks

Stewart

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    Hi Stewart,

    Great news!  Glad to hear you got it working :)

    It's odd that you had to enter your AD credentials, because we shouldn't authenticate non-browser applications with this option unchecked.  It might be that Messenger has a 'user agent' string that makes us think it's Internet Explorer - therefore we force it to authenticate.  In any case, I'll look into this to make sure there are no problems in how Messenger is handled.

    Thanks,

    Tom.

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    Hi Stewart,

    Great news!  Glad to hear you got it working :)

    It's odd that you had to enter your AD credentials, because we shouldn't authenticate non-browser applications with this option unchecked.  It might be that Messenger has a 'user agent' string that makes us think it's Internet Explorer - therefore we force it to authenticate.  In any case, I'll look into this to make sure there are no problems in how Messenger is handled.

    Thanks,

    Tom.

    :18389
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