Comment 148 for bug 304889

@Michal: there is a disconnect here: technically -- which where the bug tasks come in -- this is not an Empathy issue: Empathy does not do network. Network activities are performed by the so-called Connection Managers (which I called protocol handlers), usually the telepathy-<whatever> modules.

Support for proxy must be added in these modules, not on Empathy. This may be -- or not -- a major undertaking; I do not know.

But, no matter what, the best place to ask for it is "upstream" (where the authors reside). For each of the current valid tasks on this bug, there is a link to the upstream bug. I had a quick look at them, and it seems pretty much nothing has been done by the developers regarding proxy usage. Comments there would probably help more than here.

And I do agree that lacking proxy support is not good. But this is a bug, a technical report of an error/issue. No matter what you (or jorge above) think, we have to have the correct modules listed.

Empathy (overall) suffers with the lack of proxy support. But there is nothing to be done for Empathy itself here -- so it is Invalid as a bug task. On the other hand, telepathy-gabble, telepathy-haze, and telepathy-idle are correctly set.