[Pidgin] #9600: Yahoo still does not work through SOCKS5 Proxy

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#9600: Yahoo still does not work through SOCKS5 Proxy
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 Reporter:  psmith2100  |        Owner:  sulabh.dev
     Type:  defect      |       Status:  new       
Milestone:              |    Component:  Yahoo!    
  Version:  2.5.8       |   Resolution:            
 Keywords:              |  
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Comment(by psmith2100):

 Ok maybe there is an alternative.  Our company provided a dedicated SOCKS
 proxy for IM, but maybe it does not support SSL.  I will try and find out
 for certain.

 However, my company uses a different proxy for web surfing.  It is an HTTP
 proxy server.  My web browser is configured with a proxy IP address and
 TCP port 8080.

 I tried setting the Pidgin proxy settings to use this HTTP proxy server
 and TCP port 8080 but I get this error message:  "Could not establish a
 connection with the server: Access denied: HTTP proxy server forbids port
 5050 tunneling."  So looks like our HTTP proxy server won't permit
 tunneling to port 5050 but might work on a different port.

 Is there a different port that Yahoo will work on?

 I tried ports 20, 23, 25, 80, 119, 5050, 8001, 8002 listed in this link.
 I get the same error using ports 5050, 8001, and 8002, but on 20, 23, 25,
 80, 119, I get no error but it just hangs while trying to connect.

 http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/messenger/messenger9/messenger/mstafireconfig.html;_ylt=AhKJPJ2OVO_gJq4mLgi0lkiQLCV4

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