I've been banging my head against the wall for the past three weeks trying to make Skype work, but I've run out of things to try.

Basically, the network I am on blocks almost all network traffic to the Internet except HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and SSH. Therefore I want to set up Skype to use the HTTP/HTTPS proxies provided for network usage. Unfortunately, the stupid program (1.3.0.30) refuses to allow access to its Options dialog to set it up unless you are already logged in!!. I tried the environment variable trick but it doesn't seem to have any effect, and the config files are quite thoroughly obfuscated...

Is there anyone out there who has managed to configure the Linux port of Skype to use an authenticating HTTP/HTTPS proxy?

See my post on Proxy connection again thread.

I just can add that you can base64-encode your password to be written in the shared.xml file, without using mozilla, with the command:



you will get something like:



the contents of the second line is what has to be pasted into the .Skype/shared.xml file as proxy password
bye, Davide