pidgin-mbpurple continually tries to log in after getting credentials errors from the Twitter API

Bug #497519 reported by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin-mbpurple

I:

 1. Installed pidgin-mbpurple
 2. Added a new account w/password
 3. Tried to connect
 4. Got a connection error, network sniffing revealed that the Twitter API didn't like my user/password

I then hit "Reconnect" in pidgin-mbpurple, it then proceeded to continually try to authenticate itself over and over again to the twitter API which resulted in my temporary ban from the service.

If the program gets a valid and complete message from the API saying it didn't supply the right credentials it should *stop trying*.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 0169f76fbe64c26c287457397cc58891
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Wed Dec 16 19:25:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: pidgin-mbpurple 0.2.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: pidgin-mbpurple
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (avarab) wrote :
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