Sophos UTM SOCKS Proxy With Auth Fails For Skype
Issue :
SOCKS Proxy with Auth failed for Skype
Resolution:
Skype is sending the password with null characters in the string, which is not supported by the SOCKS proxy. The SOCKS proxy expects cleartext strings.
Affected version : 9.405
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