These iChat 4 pages are coloured Gray and have the iChat 4 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs little from the Version 3 version.

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 In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Message and FaceTime. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

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iChat 4 Pictures Firewall

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02 Firewall tab.

Nov 2008

2 Firewall Tab

Having selected Security in System Preferences you need to to select the Firewall Tab (red Arrow)

To get here you will have opened System Preferences > Security and then the Firewall tab.

A New and Changed item. As the firewall in Leopard (10.5.x) is so different to the previous versions and in a New place I have marked this as New and Changed.

There are three states the Firewall can be in selelcted at the Blue Arrow. Allow All Incoming Connections is effectively an Off selection. It will allow any connection to your Mac. Allow Essentials only is a On setting that is quite restrictive and will not let iChat work. Allow... Specific Services... needs applications added to the list. You can add items to the list here or the System will ask you to allow an application or not when you next start it up. As you can see I have added iChat to my list in the Picture.

At the end of the Allow Specific application Listing is a two choice drop down of Allow Incoming Connections or Block them.

That's it.

There are no ports to set. THis is a particular bonus from Previous versions

iChat will work with the top Allow All and the bottom Allow Specifics (if in the list) options. It is not classed as an Essential Applictaion and you can not add applicatons to that list.

What the Firewall now does is flag an Application as being Allowed somewhat in the form of a "Certificate" from the Firewall. All the ports that applications uses are allowed - BUT - only for that Application. This means that if another applications want to use the same ports, you have to Allow that application specifically as well.

One word of Caution is the Stealth Setting in the Advanced button (See Next Picture)

Next - Advance > Stealth Setting

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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

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Confirmed to work 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 only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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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