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[Mike Mestnik <304889@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
  I've just reconfirmed this bug exists with several Telepathy ?backends? when attempting to use a SOCKS proxy... an HTTP connect proxy is configured to forward connections through the available socks proxy.

I've switched to Pidgin and this is confirmed to work, however it's in
no way a solution to any problem...  at best it's a cheap work around.
Here is one solution...

Place these into /etc/rc.local and run it:
daemon -n socat5223 -- socat -ly TCP-LISTEN:5223,fork,reuseaddr SOCKS4A:127.0.0.1:talk.google.com:5223,socksport=9050
daemon -n socat5222 -- socat -ly TCP-LISTEN:5222,fork,reuseaddr OPENSSL:127.0.0.1:5223,verify=0

You'll need both the daemon and socat packages installed.  Then one
should be able to set localhost as the server to connect to.  socat can
also make use of HTTP connect proxies, I believe.

Why you wouldn't put this into your application is beyond me, it's a
little bit of shell scripting and it would close the bug...  you could
even make use of UNIX domain sockets.  It's only politics that keeps
this bug open, ppls own agendas getting in the way of implementing
options/features users are requesting.  "Why would an application
developer care about the available features on an HTTP proxy they would
likely never use?"  The use should be able to configure and use proxies,
don't know why this is so difficult a concept to understand.

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Title:
  Does not use system proxy settings

Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
  Invalid
Status in Jabber/XMPP connection manager:
  Confirmed
Status in Telepathy Haze:
  Confirmed
Status in A full-featured IRC connection manager for telepathy.:
  Confirmed
Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “empathy” source package in Lucid:
  Invalid
Status in “empathy” package in Unity Linux:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: empathy

  Empathy wont connect to any major service trough a proxy. I've tried Google Talk, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo.
  I set the proxy preferences in GNOME, it's a plain proxy for all protocols, without authentication.

  Pidgin works normally in the same setup.

  Ubuntu 8.10, Empathy 2.24.1

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