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Help for our firewall prisoners

I realize that we’ve neglected some of our users who are trapped behind firewalls. For a while we were providing jabber access on port 21, but that was discontinued as a security precaution (we were running the jabber server as root for a few days, big NONO).

Well today is the day we offer two methods to connect to the jabber server that will be pretty hard for any sys admin to block.

First method: Port 21

Simply configure your jabber client to connect to hab.la:21

Second method: Port 80 on port80.hab.la

Configure your jabber client to connect to the server “port80.hab.la” on port 80. You will need a client that lets you specify an arbitrary host to connect to, I know Adium, and PSI support this.

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Pouring some water on that corporate firewall

A few of our users have requested that we provide another port to access hab.la on. We actually implemented the code mid last week, but didn’t push it to production until today.

Corporate friends you can now access the hab.la Jabber server on port 21. So, your server configuration should look like:

username: user@hab.la

password: _ you should know this _

server: hab.la

port: 21

Let me know if you need further instructions.

I’ll leave you with a few quotes from our users:

“I’m impressed - I didn’t think after using 37Signals apps anything would impress me. But you guys did a good job on this.” - Anonymous

“This is just exactly What I needed . Plugoo was flash based and too heavy. Great Job!” - Michel, France , Marseille

“It’s a great way to interact with other people on web pages.” - Anonymous

“Thanks very much for putting the time into this. its very easy to use and its much better for people that don’t need all those complicated chat systems. As soon as I put it up, I had users asking questions all day it really helped me improve the site, because I got to talk to customers on the website directly. our customers are people who don’t use computers too often so its very simple for them to use.” - Dentfix.com

“its a real cool function.. better than a java chat on the website… so i can use my pidgin to chat directly if a user visits my website… thx for this great tool” - Moff, http://houserocker.tk

I think I’ll make a tradition of occasionally posting some of the feedback from our feedback form. (if you include a link, and your comment doesn’t look like obvious spam, I’ll try to include it) Thanks for your support guys, your feedback is what keeps Hab.la moving :-)

Let us know what you think

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