(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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/304889 Title: Does not use system proxy settings To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/304889/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
