(In reply to comment #1) > using HTTP Connect on any port that is not 443 has a big chance of being > denied by sys-admin.
Do you have any statistics of how many sys-admins deny that? Or *any evidence* for that claim?
> To me this is a bug in libpurple.
It's not. As you can see from the Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/304889
There's *plenty* of people that want this behavior. Empathy should provide an option to configure the proxy *per account*, just like Pidgin does
(In reply to comment #1)
> using HTTP Connect on any port that is not 443 has a big chance of being
> denied by sys-admin.
Do you have any statistics of how many sys-admins deny that? Or *any evidence* for that claim?
> To me this is a bug in libpurple.
It's not. As you can see from the Ubuntu bug:
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ empathy/ +bug/304889
There's *plenty* of people that want this behavior. Empathy should provide an option to configure the proxy *per account*, just like Pidgin does