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		zipperhead on June 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014... I've been using the HTTP-based skype pidgin client. It seems to mostly work - the only show stopper is that file transfer requests fail silently. I had someone trying to send me a file. I had no idea. It was a little awkward.

allan_s on June 27, 2015 [–]

do you mind sharing the link to this plugin ?

zipperhead on June 29, 2015 | [–]

Certainly:

https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe...

I'm using it from arch, via the AUR package purple-skypeweb-git

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