Can make a URL LINK on buddy status?

[T[a] La Ai]

I am writing a Pidgin plugin to change the buddy status become a link 
(if it has) (same as: while you type www.abc.com at conversation, it 
becomes a link to http://www.abc.com).
I tested changing all buddy statuses to

// testing link
link = "http://www.abc.com";
new_status = = g_strdup_printf("<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>", link, status);


but it DOESN'T work :(