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A comment on Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014).

Re:Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014) by Xylemon on Friday June 26, 2015 @01:13PM (#9786200)
"third-party Skype client (e.g. to have support in Pidgin)" Funny because recently the old Skype plugin for Pidgin was re-written to utilize the new HTTP Skype. So now you have a nice client-less Skype chat in Pidgin. I'm certain someone could study it to write their own client.
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Re:Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014) by zipperhead on Friday June 26, 2015 @03:31PM (#9787185)
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.
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Re:Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014) by allan_s on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:56PM (#9788916)
do you mind sharing the link to this plugin ?
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Re:Skype Switched to the MSN Messenger Protocol (2014) by zipperhead on Monday June 29, 2015 @11:11AM (#9798549)
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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