[Pidgin] #8853: Cannot connect to Yahoo - "connection refused" error

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#8853: Cannot connect to Yahoo - "connection refused" error
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 Reporter:  christophermerkel         |     Owner:  marv 
     Type:  defect                    |    Status:  new  
Component:  Yahoo!                    |   Version:  2.5.5
 Keywords:  connection refused error  |  
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 I'm unable to connect to Yahoo through Pidgin, though I was connecting
 fine last week on the same machine.
 I'm running 2.5.5 for over 2 weeks.
 I am successfully able to ping scs.msg.yahoo.com with 0 packets lost at
 ~49ms.
 I have tried changing the port number for Yahoo to all ports I know of
 that it uses, with no effect: 80, 5050, 8001, 8002
 Uninstalling the program and reinstalling from scratch (not copying
 .purple directory) has no effect on this error, and it reproduces 100% of
 the time.
 This is on Windows XP SP3.

 A dump of my Debug window follows, minus my Yahoo username:

 (10:29:52) prefs: /purple/savedstatus/default changed, scheduling save.
 (10:29:52) account: Connecting to account ****@yahoo.com
 (10:29:52) connection: Connecting. gc = 03730910
 (10:29:52) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (10:29:55) dnsquery: IP resolved for scs.msg.yahoo.com
 (10:29:55) proxy: Attempting connection to 66.163.181.166
 (10:29:55) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 with no proxy
 (10:29:55) proxy: Connection in progress
 (10:29:56) proxy: Connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050.
 (10:29:56) proxy: Error connecting to scs.msg.yahoo.com:5050 (Connection
 refused.).
 (10:29:56) proxy: Connection attempt failed: Connection refused.
 (10:29:56) account: Disconnecting account 00CC48E8
 (10:29:56) connection: Disconnecting connection 03730910
 (10:29:56) connection: Destroying connection 03730910
 (10:29:57) util: Writing file status.xml to directory C:\Documents and
 Settings\Chris Merkel\Application Data\.purple
 (10:29:57) util: Writing file C:\Documents and Settings\Chris
 Merkel\Application Data\.purple\status.xml
 (10:29:58) util: Writing file prefs.xml to directory C:\Documents and
 Settings\Chris Merkel\Application Data\.purple
 (10:29:58) util: Writing file C:\Documents and Settings\Chris
 Merkel\Application Data\.purple\prefs.xml
 (10:29:58) util: Writing file accounts.xml to directory C:\Documents and
 Settings\Chris Merkel\Application Data\.purple
 (10:29:58) util: Writing file C:\Documents and Settings\Chris
 Merkel\Application Data\.purple\accounts.xml

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 Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 Thank you,
 Chris

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8853>
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