On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:59:39 +0100, Jan Kotuc wrote > Hi y'all, > > at work I have to route all network traffic through a HTTP proxy. > Just a hostname and port. No name and password required. IE, Firefox, > Opera, QIP, etc have no problems with it. Unfortunately Pidgin > does. It provides 4 fields to specify proxy settings: host, port, > name, password. Simply leaving name and password blank won't help. Pidgin > apparently treats those fields as empty strings and sends them to the > proxy server as such. Naturally it doesn't work.
What makes you think Pidgin is sending those fields to the proxy server? I just tested and it does not appear to do that. > Any ideas what can be done in this situation? I know that Pidgin is > principally a Unix/Linux application and name/password proxy > authentication is a standard on Unixes, but nowhere else. Please > modify your application so that it can traverse "windows-type" proxy > servers as well. TIA What proxy server is it, exactly? What protocol(s) are you trying to use? What do you mean by "windows-type" proxy servers? -Mark _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
