Ralph Johns

iChat Information Pages

Version 3


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These iChat 3 pages are coloured Orange and have the iChat 3 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from Version 1 by having the camera logo added and from iChat 2 by having the Running Man removed.

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.


iChat 3 Pictures

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1[3] 01 iChat Firewall tab Oct 2008

This is the iChat 3 or rather the Tiger (10.4.x) Firewall Tab in System Preferences > Sharing

The List has some Presets by default and new items added by the User get added at the bottom. The list has been scrolled in this Picture to show an Already Added item for iChat and Bonjour. Notice the default Preset fo iChat Bonjour is deselected a little further up the List.

Apple changed the Firewall at Tiger to be able to list the TCP and UDP ports an application used separately. Older Presets where brought forward from Panther (10.3.x) but tended to list only TCP ports and this was the case with what had been Rendezvous into Bonjour as it became called from Tiger onwards. As Bonjour uses more ports on UDP than it does TCP it made the preset next to useless so they are added in the iChat one.

There is no preset for the A/V or even the Text chatting port for iChat so you have to create one hence this set of pictures.

If you have an entry brought forward from Panther you will need the Edit Button (and then the third picture in this series). If you have no entry for the iChat A/V ports you will need the new Button (and will need the second picture as well).

On to the Firewall Drop Down.


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Created October, 2008 Major Update/Edit October 2024.

 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

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This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

The Firewall tab in System Preferences > Sharing. This Firewall is Off but show the Added iChat/Bonjour entry with it's Tooltip showing.

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September/October 2024 moving towards being fully HTML 5 compliant meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) should/may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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