[Pidgin] #549: Issues connecting to Yahoo

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#549: Issues connecting to Yahoo
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 Reporter:  cpietrafeso             |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new                     |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)            |    Version:  2.0   
 Keywords:  Yahoo connect problems  |    Pending:  0     
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 Quite often I cannot connect to yahoo (several others at my work are
 having identical issues with multiple Pidgin/Gaim versions (1.5, 2.0B6,
 B7, etc...), but we can all connect with Yahoo's IM client.

 It seems to connect but then says the server closes the connection with
 unknown error number 0 and inactivates the account (BTW: if we have a
 Yahoo client logged in it will disconnect saying someone else logged in
 with the same account, showing the Yahoo service is seeing Pidgin's
 login).  A dialog box pops up and says:

 Unknown error number 0. Logging into the Yahoo! website may fix this...

 We've all tried logging into the Yahoo website and that doesn't appear to
 fix anything.

 Sometimes this error will randomly go way and everything will work until I
 restart Pidgin/Gaim and it will creep back up and not go away (it hasn't
 worked for several dozen re-try attempts so far).

 From Debug window during one of this errors (my account name is scrubbed):
 (10:54:34) account: Connecting to account <my account>
 (10:54:34) connection: Connecting. gc = 01F8B960
 (10:54:34) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (10:54:34) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (10:54:34) proxy: Attempting connection to 216.155.193.177
 (10:54:34) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
 (10:54:34) proxy: Connection in progress
 (10:54:34) proxy: Connected to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
 (10:54:34) yahoo: 100 bytes to read, rxlen is 120
 (10:54:34) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1
 (10:54:34) yahoo: yahoo status: 0
 (10:54:34) account: Disconnecting account 00D12A10
 (10:54:34) connection: Disconnecting connection 01F8B960
 (10:54:34) connection: Destroying connection 01F8B960

 another instance with a different Yahoo account:
 (10:59:14) account: Connecting to account <another account>
 (10:59:14) connection: Connecting. gc = 01F107D8
 (10:59:14) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (10:59:14) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (10:59:14) proxy: Attempting connection to 216.155.193.177
 (10:59:14) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
 (10:59:14) proxy: Connection in progress
 (10:59:14) proxy: Connected to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
 (10:59:14) yahoo: 105 bytes to read, rxlen is 125
 (10:59:14) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x57 Status: 1
 (10:59:14) yahoo: yahoo status: 0
 (10:59:14) yahoo: 34 bytes to read, rxlen is 54
 (10:59:14) yahoo: Yahoo Service: 0x54 Status: -1
 (10:59:14) account: Disconnecting account 00D240D8
 (10:59:14) connection: Disconnecting connection 01F107D8
 (10:59:14) connection: Destroying connection 01F107D8

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