[OTR-users] otr-proxy and iChat

[Mark Senior]

Hello list

I've looked back through the list for the last couple of months and
not noted any feedback on using OTR Proxy.app on OS X, with iChat.

In case any of this is platform sensitive - I'm using OS X 10.4.8 on
an Intel iMac.

As it is right now, it's probably not usable to most Mac users.  I
tried to run the app in the usual Mac-y way, by double clicking on the
icon from the Applications folder.  The GUI starts up, and everything
seems fine.  I then logged out of iChat, set the preferences to use
localhost:8080 as an HTTP proxy, and tried to connect.  At this point,
the connection process seemed to hang for about a minute, and then it
gave up and went to the "disconnected" state.

I tried quitting OTR Proxy and relaunched it, but it objected that it
was unable to listen on ports 1080 and 8080, because another process
already had them.  I quit OTR Proxy again, ran "lsof -i" and sure
enough there was a running process hanging around (maybe it doesn't
clean up its child processes?).  So, there's bug number one.

But even with the lingering process killed, it still can't connect.
Figuring I might get some debug info, I cd'd into /Applications/OTR\
Proxy/Contents/MacOS/ and ran the executable at the terminal.  Having
done that, the connection worked fine!  So, bug number two - does OTR
Proxy maybe require a tty to write to?

Generating the private key seemed to work well at that point.  Now, I
just have to wait for someone to come on line so I can try chatting
with them...

Regards
Mark