[Adium-devl] Fwd: adiumxtras site

[Chris Forsythe]

I'd be curious as to how he determined this.

Chris

Colin Barrett wrote:

>I just got my email back up today (thanks, Mail.app cache!), and I  
>found this in my inbox.
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>Any one have any clue what this is?
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>>From: "Buckingham" <chrisb at csr.net>
>>Date: February 24, 2007 8:27:24 AM PST
>>To: <colin at adiumx.com>
>>Subject: adiumxtras site
>>Reply-To: chrisb at csr.net
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>Recently I downloaded Adium to try it instead of Proteus, so far I
>>find the configurability just as good. In order to get more visual
>>versatility I tried to go to the recommended extras site
>>adiumxtras.com.
>>
>>There was a problem connecting and on further research I found that
>>when I try to connect to the extras site it forwards to the site
>>redux.adiumx.com (75.126.12.28), which tries to initiate a
>>connection back to me on a high port (49000 - 54000 TCP). Can you
>>explain this and why this system needs to initiate a seperate
>>connection to me instead of just responding to my browser request
>>(stateful)?
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>Christopher Buckingham
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