[PATCH] Fix bug in "manual" GNOME proxy handling

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 20:22 -0800, Jeff Connelly wrote:
> 2008/3/4 Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au>:
> > In libpurple/proxy.c, purple_gnome_proxy_get_info() uses gconftool to
> >  get the GNOME proxy settings. It explicitly looks for proxy type =
> >  "none", in which case no proxy is used, and also proxy type = "manual"
> >  in which case the global pidgin proxy is used.
> >
> >  However the check for "manual" is missing a ! on the strcmp(), so it
> >  incorrectly falls through.

> For what it is worth, I've used g_str_equal() instead of strcmp()
> throughout the MySpaceIM protocol plugin to avoid this particular
> mistake.
> 
> g_str_equal() was intended to be used with glib to compare strings
> within hash tables, but it works pretty well as a general-purpose
> function, and has saner return values.

Yeah, strcmp() sucks. People get it wrong all the time. I didn't know
about g_str_equal() - if the Pidgin cabal prefer that it would be a good
change IMHO.

cheers

ps. apologies if the patch is word-wrapped, I think I forgot to turn off
encryption.

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