[Pidgin] #12942: Pidgin 2.7.5 Yahoo messenger no longer working if connection is behind the proxy

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#12942: Pidgin 2.7.5 Yahoo messenger no longer working if connection is behind the
proxy
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 Reporter:  anthony_yio          |     Owner:  sulabh.dev
     Type:  defect               |    Status:  new       
Component:  Yahoo!/Yahoo! JAPAN  |   Version:  2.7.5     
 Keywords:                       |  
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 Hi,
  I am connecting to internet behind the proxy. Using Pidgin quite some
 time and it is working great. However. recently i get some certificate
 expired message(omega something...) using Pidgin 2.6.6 on my MSN messenger
 account. So, i figured it could be the version of my Pidgin is timed and
 therefore I upgrade to Pidgin 2.7.5.

  After i installed Pidgin 2.7.5, the MSN certificate is gone but i saw my
 Yahoo account kept on failing in connecting to the yahoo messenging
 server. So, i check the yahoo account setting to look for any clues to fix
 and found out that the pager server setting is gone compare to 2.6.6 . I
 checked the release note and realize that it has been designed to remove
 the setting. I suppose pidgin would be able to figure out what the setting
 should be now.
  Fortunately, i have 2.6.6 installer kept somewhere and and reinstall it
 back to 2.6.6, the yahoo connection is gone but the MSN certificate
 problem came back.

  So, i suppose there is a bug in the Pidgin 2.7.5 Yahoo messenger module
 where it would cause Yahoo account not to work correctly if the connection
 is behind the proxy. I suppose this can be checked and compare against to
 version 2.6.6 as why it would work in old ones and the new ones failed.

 My hunch is that do not rely too much on the automatic account calibration
 feature too much and leave more room for manual tweaking like disabling
 the paging server setting is an example.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12942>
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