What's necessary for installing Escargot on Windows XP?

[irix]

I’ve done some searches on this forum for similar topics, but everything else seems to be dated (by more than one year) and I figured something might’ve changed in what’s necessary to get this program up and running on a machine running Windows XP(?)

[OhHelloThereImTheGuy]

This thread should be enough:

Using Messenger with Escargot on Windows XP, and avoiding the 80048821 error

To use versions of Messenger including and after 4.7.2005 on Windows XP, including MSN Messenger 5, 6, and 7, there are several configuration changes that need to be made to the default Windows XP installation to avoid an authentication error (80048821). At present there are intermittent server issues when connecting via XP, but it still can be made to work with a little effort Turn off SSL2.0 and SSL3.0 Escargot’s server uses TLS1.0 with the TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA cipher as the best se…

I also advise you to stay away from using WLM 8 on XP due to the fact it relies on HTTPS for some core functions outside login like contact list management and the fact that HTTPS on Escargot on XP is still a little wonky, unless you plan to get ProxHTTPSProxy set up too.

[xpir121254]

i used the proxy and it works fine