[Bug 304889]

[Felipe Contreras]

(In reply to comment #1)
> using HTTP Connect on any port that is not 443 has a big chance of being
> denied by sys-admin.

Do you have any statistics of how many sys-admins deny that? Or *any
evidence* for that claim?

> To me this is a bug in libpurple.

It's not. As you can see from the Ubuntu bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/304889

There's *plenty* of people that want this behavior. Empathy should
provide an option to configure the proxy *per account*, just like Pidgin
does

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  Does not use system proxy settings

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