Failed to open a irc address using purple-url-handler

[Rafael Sachetto]

When I try to open a irc url such as irc://irc.freenode.net/#launchpad using purple-url-handler I got the following message:

No matching account found.
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus/_dbus.py:250: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is not public API and will go away soon.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
<email address hidden>.

  import dbus.dbus_bindings as m

I don't know if it is a bug or is only because a don't have a irc account configured in gaim.
The main problem is that firefox tries to open the url using the purple-url-handler and this doesn't work.

[Rafael Sachetto (rsachetto)]

Anybody with the same problem? Still not working with pidgin 2.2.0 and firefox 2.0.0.6

[Pavankumar Kulkarni (bkpavan)]

I am running Pidgin 2.2.1 on and Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy).
After setting up irc account(irc.ubuntu.com) and installing libpurple-bin (1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1), I am able to launch irc url.

If I disable irc account, only url fails to launch, no error dialogbox is displayed.

[Pedro Fragoso (ember)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you on an updated Ubuntu? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

[Mike Chelen (mchelen)]

It seems that purple-url-handler requires an existing IRC account in Pidgin for the server, and if one doesn't exist it fails with an error message or, in current versions, silently.