Comment 120 for bug 304889

In my company (~80 000 employees) we are also forces users to use http
proxy.
I's a standard in corporations and university campuses.
I also think i's much more than 1% of people affected by this bug.

2010/12/23 Felipe Contreras <email address hidden>

> > How about people following this bug mention what type of proxy support
> they
> > need? (socks, http, etc.)
>
> Personally, my university (Tec Monterrey), and the companies I've worked
> for (Texas Instruments, and Nokia), they all have used an HTTP proxy for
> everything (HTTP Connect). And all the proxy bugs I've had in my
> projects (msn-pecan) have been of HTTP proxies.
>
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> Title:
> Does not use system proxy settings
>
> Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface:
> Unknown
> Status in Jabber/XMPP connection manager:
> Confirmed
> Status in Telepathy Haze:
> Confirmed
> Status in A full-featured IRC connection manager for telepathy.:
> Confirmed
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “empathy” source package in Lucid:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> Empathy wont connect to any major service trough a proxy. I've tried Google
> Talk, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo.
> I set the proxy preferences in GNOME, it's a plain proxy for all protocols,
> without authentication.
>
> Pidgin works normally in the same setup.
>
> Ubuntu 8.10, Empathy 2.24.1
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