Muhammad, you didn't read the bug correctly, Empathy uses the proxy. The problem is that you may not want it to use the proxy although you want the other network clients to. Here is the usecase (see also comment #3):
we have a proxy to access the internet, but use an internal chat server for our messaging. So if Empathy can't be told to not use the proxy I can't connect to the internal chat server, since it tries to use the proxy which isn't to be used for internal communications. In Pidgin, you can tell it to not use the proxy, thus Pidgin works in my usecase but Empathy doesn't. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/750429 Title: empathy uses proxy when it shouldn't Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Empathy is trying to connect to the Windows Live (MSN) service through the proxy, but the system proxy settings only apply to HTTP and FTP. Other applications respect this, but Empathy is trying to tunnel port 1863 (MSNP) through Squid. It therefore fails. There is no way to set proxy settings within the app and adding messenger.hotmail.com to the ignore hosts makes no difference whatsoever. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic 2.6.35.11 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Apr 4 16:51:25 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1889): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (nautilus:1890): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/750429/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
