Bug 22065

Summary:	Telepathy attempts to use Gnome default proxy to connect to Haze MSN and AIM
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Jerry Haltom <wasabi>
Component:	haze	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	nicolas
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Jerry Haltom 2009-06-03 08:39:25 UTC

<wasabi> haze-Message: [error] msn: Connection error: Access denied: HTTP proxy server forbids port 1863 tunneling.
<wjt> :)
<wjt> well, haze doesn't support the proxy CM parameter
 so libpurple *is* poking gconf behind my back

The default system proxy is being used for CONNECT. There is no option to disable the proxy. If the system proxy server doesn't support CONNECT, users are out of luck. Haze should provide config options to make libpurple not do this.

Comment 1 Nicolas Dufresne 2010-10-05 12:57:28 UTC

Hmm, using HTTP Connect on any port that is not 443 has a big chance of being denied by sys-admin. To me this is a bug in libpurple. Unless we have a very clear and specific error code, I'm not sure we can do anything in Haze.

Comment 2 Felipe Contreras 2011-11-29 09:48:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> using HTTP Connect on any port that is not 443 has a big chance of being
> denied by sys-admin.

Do you have any statistics of how many sys-admins deny that? Or *any evidence* for that claim?

> To me this is a bug in libpurple.

It's not. As you can see from the Ubuntu bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/304889

There's *plenty* of people that want this behavior. Empathy should provide an option to configure the proxy *per account*, just like Pidgin does

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:05:13 UTC

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