[Pidgin] #10210: Pidgin ignores service names

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#10210: Pidgin ignores service names
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 Reporter:  scarpe01  |        Owner:              
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  pending     
Milestone:            |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.1     |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  services  |  
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Changes (by scarpe01):

  * status:  pending => new


Old description:

> I came to connect to a new network today that I needed to start using a
> proxy to connect. I run a local ssh proxy and name the port that I use
> for SOCKS forwarding according to the machine that I am proxying through.
>
> I found that pidgin "port" feild for proxy configuration does not appear
> to attempt to look up service names via getservbyname()
>
> This is on Linux, I am not sure if this issue applies to windows ports as
> I don't know that they even have service names.

New description:

 I came to connect to a new network today that I needed to start using a
 proxy to connect. I run a local ssh proxy and name the port that I use for
 SOCKS forwarding according to the machine that I am proxying through.

 I found that pidgin "port" feild for proxy configuration does not appear
 to attempt to look up service names via getservbyname()

 This is on Linux, I am not sure if this issue applies to windows ports as
 I don't know that they even have service names.

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Comment:

 Yes. Thats exactly what I expect it to do, thats exactly what
 /etc/services is for, and why the libc library contains getservbyname

 This is pretty normal for example:
 $ telnet localhost smtp
 Trying 127.0.0.1...
 Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
 Escape character is '^]'.
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