Identifying Pidgin client from packet trace

[Ethan Blanton]

Sanjay Raghani spake unto us the following wisdom:
> While using Pidgin to connect to Yahoo, is there some property/field in the
> packet on the basis of which Pidigin client can be differtiated from a Yahoo
> client?
> Something like user agent or any other property in the protocol packets.
> 
> Or in other words, from a packet trace, is there some way to identify that
> the login was from a pidgin client?

If there is, and you find it, it's probably a bug, so let us know.  ;-)

We try very hard to look like the official client in every way.  There
are bound to be differences where we've missed something or messed up,
but they are unintentional.

Ethan

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