Strange links behaviour

[Etan Reisner]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:24:44PM +0400, Виктор Лапин wrote:
> When I send a link to my buddy (I'm using Pidgin 2.7.0 and he's using QIP), 
> he receives it as <a href="http://youtube.com">http://youtube.com</a>. I 
> cannot post it as a bug, because our proxy-server doesn't allow me to 
> developer.pidgin.im

What protocol is this happening with? Did this behaviour just start with
2.7.0 or was it present before also?

    -Etan