Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again
On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Hans wrote:
> !
> > Works like a charm! How in the world did you figure that out?
> > Hugo
> Hi Hugo,
> to figure this out was by chance and a littlen bit thinking.
> Someone in the skype forum told, he installed skype 4.2 and it connected. So I
> downgraded skypeo from 4.3 to 4.2 and at the first start it connected, too.
> Then I disconnected from the skype-servers and tried to reconnect. There was
> no way to reconnect. However, now I knew, connecting is possible, but the
> server inhibits.
> Now I looked into the package, the only main difference I saw in the linux
> package, that the skype binary was different. The skype.conf and other files
> were the same.
> As I am no coder, my idea was, that the skype server just check the version of
> the binary. the command skype --version told me the version, and I thought,
> this version must be named somewhere in the binary.
> The rest was simple: I opened the binary with a hexeditor and searched for the
> version: 4.2.0.11 and then changed this to the actual version. Doing so, the
> old binary behaves as the 4.2 version, but tells the skype-server, hey, I am
> 4.3.0.37. That way the skype server allows connecting again.
> I am no coder, a real coder would have disassembled the 4.3 skype binary and
> put alsa support back. My way was much more simple and more a "hack". :)
He would?!?!
I'll need to contact my univ, return my degree and ask
a money-back then :-)
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