Comment 0 for bug 304889

The following bug report was filled on Debian's BTS as bug #441389. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/441389 for more information.

Am Sonntag, den 09.09.2007, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Sjoerd Simons:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 01:41:18PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Package: telepathy-idle
> > Version: 0.1.1-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > It'd be useful if there was an option to specify a proxy for IRC
> > connections so a bouncer / irc proxy can be used. This usually would be
> > a different proxy from the globally set proxy used for http, ssh, etc.
>
> Both me and upstream are a bit confused by this bug report. Afaik to use an IRC
> proxy/bouncer you just specify the proxy as the server instead of your normal
> irc server? So that should work with the current -idle.
>
> I suppose you want support for socks proxy and things like that ?
Yep, that's the sort of thing I mean. There's several bouncers that
support socks or by addition of a custom command "CONNECT" in the IRC
protocol that is used for selecting the target network that should be
used.

Cheers,

Jelmer