The latest version of Pidgin still doesn't fetch the buddy icons behind a Squid
proxy server.
Haven't tried it on my 8.10 system lately, but I'm quite sure it still doesn't.
Some months ago I managed to get a fix on this by hacking into the pidgin
source code - the yahoo protocol part.
But after two or three pidgin updates, I get lazy to hack the source code
again.
So basicly when connecting behind a proxy server, the newer version of pidgin
already got a workaround. It has a different approach when it connects behind a
proxy or not. But this gives a new problem for squid :
When fetching a buddy icons, Squid needs to know what is the full url of the
image is. Pidgin only gives:
the host and then the filename.
And so Squid fails to understand where the actual image location is, because it
needs to know :
the host and the full url.
Maybe I could post the source-code hack later.
I hope my explanation is clear enough ...
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Bugs behind proxy server with/without authentication
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164301
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