Today we were trying to get into the Gtalk chat application in Gmail from our work. It seems that the administrators at our company have blocked it on the firewall. Nobody on the entire company network could get into it. All of us received an error:

Your network administrator or ISP has chosen to block chat in Gmail

We tried clearing the cookies from our browser, but of course that didn’t help. So we decided to try the secure Gmail site at https://www.gmail.com. Would you believe it worked? It looks like the administrators didn’t think of blocking the secure address. So we can chat in Gtalk until the administrators get wise again.