[Telepathy] About proxy support

Daniel Hernandez Bahr dbahr at uci.cu
Wed Oct 13 12:30:08 PDT 2010


Yeah, well, I tried to instal glib-networking as you instructed, but it
requests gio-2.0 >=2.25.15, yet in Ubuntu repositories available gio is
2.22, so I guess I'll stick to pidgin for a while.

Best regards everyone, and thanks for your concern, Nicolas.

D.H. Bahr

On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 15:13 -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:

> Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 14:51 -0400, Daniel Hernandez Bahr a
> écrit :
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> 
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> > 
> > I recently installed Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat, which comes with Gnome
> > 2.32 by default. Gnome 2.32 includes GLib 2.26 which implements
> > proxy support for GSocket (according to
> > http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/#glib) and as
> > Danielle  mentioned in the previous email I was expecting Empathy to
> > be able to connect to GTalk through a proxy: yet it failed. Would it
> > be a wrong configuration on my system? I had set Gnome proxy for
> > HTTP, HTTPS, Socks and FTP... is there a solution?
> 
> To work properly, GLib Proxy support needs a configuration plug-in
> provided by glib-networking. This module can be found here [1] (Dan
> Winship just released it). Having this module installed will let GLib
> retrieve configuration from your system using libproxy. GLib alone
> provide transparent SOCKS5/4a/4 support for GTalk.
> 
> Note that HTTP support is still under review, you may track this bug
> [2] in order to stay informed. Telepathy Gabble is already set-up to
> fallback on port 443 and try HTTPS settings when normal addresses
> fails.
> 
> Best regards,
> Nicolas
> 
> [1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib-networking/2.26/
> [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23646


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