using jabber from firewalled location
Recently, due to security reasons, all kind of ports were closed at my workplace which made impossible to connect to gtalk and icq servers. I used pidgin because i could not find stable jabber transports, which was connected to icq, msn, and jabber networks - to be able to contact both people at work and friends. I couldn’t do it any longer 
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Since Internet browsing works, there are at least two ports open - 80 (http) and 443 (https). Which means i need ed to find jabber server which allows to connect on those ports. And it was easy enough - thanks to Australian jabber.org.au. It allows connections on port 443.
So, pick your favorite jabber client, register on site above and use jabber transports to connect to msn/icq/etc. Do not forget to set the port manually to 443.
Most important - have fun 
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Thank you so much for promoting Jabber. Note that you could also use meebo (http://meebo.com) to connect o your favorite Jabber server using your internet browser. If you are looking for stable transports I can also recommend the transports on the jabberlive.org server. Check them out and also take a look at their website http://jabberlive.org where you can register with your own Jabber ID and can search for people who have their JID on other jabber servers.
Comment by Seraphiel — November 9, 2007 @ 04:30
Somehow, a minute before posting, i checked the jabber service mentioned above by Seraphiel - and guess what - the transports were down
Comment by linux4all — November 11, 2007 @ 06:20