[Bug 70333] New: Tor support

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70333

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 70333
          Assignee: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Tor support
        QA Contact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Severity: minor
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: fr33domlover at mailoo.org
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: idle
           Product: Telepathy

For better privacy and security, it's possible to connect to many IRC services
using SSL. Many IRC servers are also available through Tor. SSL support is
common, but clients other than the not-very-user-friendly XChat - and maybe
GNOME XChat too, never tried - have support for connecting to IRC through Tor.

XChat will always remain necessary, as long as it has features other clients
don't have. Maybe other features are less critical (I'm not a Tor/IRC expert),
but adding Tor support will allow me and other Tor users to access IRC through
the running Tor service.

How it could work: Make it possible to add Onion addresses of Tor hidden
services when choosing a server, and connect to them if Tor is running on
the system.

Then desktop clients like Gnome's Polari can easily connect through Tor. This
may apply to Jabber/XMPP too, or any service which can operate through Tor.

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