Hi Omer, I went to the haze debug logs and found that the proxy server
was denying tunnelling to the 5050 port.  Therefore, I changed the
squid.conf (squid proxy configuration) file and added the following line

acl SSL_ports port 5050         # Empathy - Yahoo connection

I know that you know why I did this but for everyone else's benefit ...

Put this line at the bottom of the existing 'acl SSL_ports port ...'
lines.  By default, squid defines a few ports that are allowed to use
the connect tunnel and adds the ports into a list named SSL_ports.  By
adding the line above, it adds the 5050 port to the SSL_ports list and
then squid allows the connect to all the ports listed in SSL_ports.

Thank you very much Omer for helping to find the problem. To everyone
else, good luck :)

One last thing, if you don't control your proxy server, for example you
use a company proxy server, you would have to ask the administrator to
enable port 5050 tunnelling.

>From my point of view, this bug report can be marked as complete, and as
a non-bug for Empathy etc except perhaps to mention in the Empathy
documentation, that some sites (eg Yahoo) require tunnelling to be
enabled in a proxy server if a proxy server is in use.

Kind regards, Michael.

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