GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 602824
proxy support
Last modified: 2010-09-07 08:01:41 UTC
Empathy lacks the feature of configuring a proxy. If you are behind a firewall or proxy server: http, https, socks 4, or socks 5 empathy is basically useless. Just about any other messaging client can be configured to use the gnome setting for proxy, or stand alone proxy server with or without authentication. I cant believe that without this functionality empathy is now standard client in gnome.
Indeed, Empathy currently doesn't support proxies.
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I join to your opinion finnmetal: Empathy need proxy support.
Yeah, empathy needs proxy support. Empathy works great in my office, but not work at all in my home because I have to use proxy to connect to Internet in my home.
AFAIK we should close this bug and report against each CM, since we agree at guadec last year that proxy support should come from CMs using libproxy.
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Hey, Confirming on 22 Jun 2010. Is there a roadmap or milestone that specifies when this will be worked upon? OR Is there documentation on how one interested in providing patches for this should proceed? Thanks, Ankur
Which CM's are actually using libproxy?
telepathy-butterfly. Gabble should hopefully follow shortly.
Telepathy Butterfly proxy support as been reworked and fixed recently. It now uses libproxy and support SOCKS5/HTTP/HTTP Connect. Starting from Glib 2.25.15, GIO transparently supports libproxy and SOCKS5/4a/4 (which directly give Gabble/Wocky such proxy support). A patch is under review to give HTTP Connect proxy support to Wocky (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23646). Meanwhile, to get this to work well with GTalk, we needed to support fallback servers in Gabble (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23646) which also requires changes in Empathy. Empathy support for fallback-servers (need to be reviewed): http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/nicolas/empathy.git;a=commitdiff;h=cc3ee517b27b031acc96853f92c254f8574f980b (Work is still required to enable proxy with Telepathy Haze.)
Looks good. Please merge once the gabble branch has been merged and released. Nicolas: do you think this bug could be closed and we should open separated bugs for specific remaning issues?
(In reply to comment #17) > Nicolas: do you think this bug could be closed and we should open separated > bugs for specific remaning issues? I'd say yes we can close. All remaining issues should be reported against the connection managers (in bugs.freedesktop.org). Also this patch is probably the only one required in Empathy, aside if we want to enable per-account proxy settings.
Ok cool, closing this bug as NOTGNOME as all the work has been thanks in lower layers. Thanks Nicolas for you work on this.