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Bug 601894 - support SOCKS proxies
support SOCKS proxies
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 602824
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-14 12:59 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2009-11-30 16:45 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2009-11-14 12:59:03 UTC 
I would like Empathy to automatically use my SOCKS proxy specified in the gnome-network-properties. It is an SSH tunnel to secure communications over wifi hotspots and the like.

Some info to reproduce/test:

1. have a machine that will be used as the SSH host in which you will tunnel into
2. SSH into it, by running this in a terminal: ssh -v -N -D 8000 the-remote-host, keep the terminal open
3. go in gnome's proxy settings (gnome-network-properties)
4. set the mode to "manual proxy configuration"
5. set the "socks host" to localhost, port 8000 (leave the other proxy types blank)
6. make the terminal (the one with the ssh tunnel running in it) show "always on top" so you can see its activity at all times
7. use empathy, notice that nothing happens in the terminal.
8. use pidgin to do the same: notice that activity shows up in the terminal where SSH is running (new "channels" are opened, etc.), indicating that it indeed uses the socks proxy
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-11-30 16:45:07 UTC 
Empathy basically doesn't support any kind of proxy atm. Closing this bug as a
dup of bug #602824 for now. We'll reconsider specific case once we'll have
generic proxy support working.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 602824 ***