Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
I use GNOME and when I configure my desktop to use a squid proxy
address in "Network Proxy",
Pidgin automatically use "GNOME Proxy Settings", and could not connect.
Funky. I have no problem with that config.
Check your proxy settings are correct
> echo $http_proxy
http://proxy.your.domain.invalid:3128/
(or rather with your actual proxy FQDN)
Also try with/without the "Use for all protocols" checkbox. I have heard
of problems with that, though have only seen it myself with
thunderbird choosing the SOCKS as best proxy when none available :-(.
As a final backup you can set the proxy details for each account
directly into pidgin.
Is there a squid configuration that will allow communication from MSN,
Yahoo, Gmail and IRC?
Not with their native clients. Those protocols do not naturally use
HTTP. The user-agent has to specifically wrap the links in CONNECT for
squid.
Amos
