[OTR-users] OTR suddenly not connecting

[Ian Goldberg]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:45:51PM -0400, Bits wrote:
> I changed my Pidgin settings to only connect to one ICQ account, then
> exited it and started it again with "pidgin -d > out.txt".
> 
> The initial connecting bit is about 370 lines.
> After that I took note of the log contents and tried "OTR: Start private
> conversation" and it added these lines to the log:
> 
> -----
> (22:34:29) oscar: Sending IM, charset=0x0000, length=290
> (22:34:29) oscar: rate change (param ID 0x0001): curavg = 6000, maxavg =
> 6000, alert at 2000, clear warning at 2500, limit at 1500, disconnect at
> 800, delta is 569460, dropping is 0 (window size = 80)
> (22:34:29) oscar: Sent message to 123456789.
> -----
> 
> Then I sent over a message including only a single question mark and got
> basically these very similar lines (note the msg is much shorter -
> apparently 59 bites just to send my one-character message):
> 
> -----
> (22:38:33) oscar: Sending IM, charset=0x0000, length=59
> (22:38:33) oscar: rate change (param ID 0x0001): curavg = 6000, maxavg =
> 6000, alert at 2000, clear warning at 2500, limit at 1500, disconnect at
> 800, delta is 813740, dropping is 0 (window size = 80)
> (22:38:33) oscar: Sent message to 123456789.
> -----
> 
> While I was typing up this email I notice a couple more lines getting
> added to the log:
> 
> -----
> (22:40:17) oscar: Scheduling destruction of FLAP connection 022C1BC0 of
> type 0x0010
> (22:40:17) oscar: Destroying FLAP connection 022C1BC0
> (22:40:17) oscar: Destroying oscar connection (022C1BC0) of type 0x0010. 
> Disconnect reason is 4
> (22:40:17) oscar: Disconnected.  Code is 0x0000 and msg is Remote host
> closed connection.
> -----
> 
> Note that my private conversation has yet to start up, even after multiple
> clickings on "Start private conversation" and multiple simple messages to
> try to get it started.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this!

Can you see what actual messages are getting sent and received, say with
wireshark?

Thanks,

   - Ian