Gaim thro proxy.....HELP!

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I have installed Fedora Core 3 in one of my college systems

My college Internet connection for clients is thro proxy.......

Usually I access the net in browser by configuring the browser (Firefox)

Tools -- > Options -- > General -- -> Connection settings --> Manual Configuration (Same proxy for all protocols)

Http Proxy: 129.0.0.120 Port: 3128

And I can access the net and is working fine

BUT........

Coming to gaim....

I could not connect thro proxy.......

Even If I set all those proxy options correctly in gaim (for IRC)......
It shows connecting forever.........

I tried Opera Even in that even after setting proxy option though I can access the net I could not connect to the irc channel........

Help me!!!!!!!

Even I could connect Yahoo! messenger by setting proxy in it!!

But IRC

Help

You may have to configure your proxy server. It is probably not relaying yahoo/irc port connections i.e. refusing connections on port other than http/80 .

Yahoo messenger client can use http/80 port to connect to its notification server. But i think GAIM cannot do it. What is the exact error message that GAIM throws to you?

I enabled port 6667 in squid

In server when I choose HTTP

Error is : proxy server forbids port 6667 tunnelling

Its important to know that many of the IRC servers like efnet, freenode will disconnect you if they find an open proxy which in your case they will find