[Pidgin] #11110: Pidgin appears to leak DNS for Jabber accounts

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Fri Apr 15 10:00:22 EDT 2011


#11110: Pidgin appears to leak DNS for Jabber accounts
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 Reporter:  ioerror                     |        Owner:  deryni
     Type:  defect                      |       Status:  new   
Milestone:  Implementation In Progress  |    Component:  XMPP  
  Version:                              |   Resolution:        
 Keywords:  jabber security privacy     |  
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Comment(by datallah):

 This patch will prevent connections in the default configuration to e.g.
 GTalk for any users who use a proxy (the SRV lookup is necessary).

 I think it's a much better idea to make a plugin override
 `purple_srv_txt_query_set_ui_ops()`, to provide a dummy implementation.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11110#comment:22>
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