[Pidgin] #9414: Yahoo! fails to connect, connecting forever

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#9414: Yahoo! fails to connect, connecting forever
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 Reporter:  gagern  |        Owner:  marv  
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new   
Milestone:          |    Component:  Yahoo!
  Version:  2.5.6   |   Resolution:        
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by pozunmv):

 @breaux that does seem like what could be happening, however looking at
 the communication going on when I connect with an older client doesn't
 make sense.  The other client I am using which works on servers that
 pidgin doesn't and appears to use an even older version for the
 authentication method.  According to the data that it sends its using
 version 12 of the YMSG protocol and connects without issue.  When looking
 at the traffic pidgin creates it's using version 15 of the protocol.  Now
 if it were a simple upgrade to the yahoo servers causing the issue, I
 would expect an even older version of the YMSG protocol to error out as
 well.  If they did upgrade these servers to a non-backwards compatible
 protocol I would imagine that version 12 would also be broken, not that
 version 15 breaks where as version 12 still works.  I could be wrong but
 it just doesn't make sense to me.

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