Bug 138052

Summary:	msn connection fail without notification if incorrect proxy
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Fabio Varesano <fabio.varesano>
Component:	MSN Plugin	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gokdenizk
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.40.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Fabio Varesano 2006-11-28 23:39:36 UTC

Version:           0.12.3 (using KDE 3.5.5, Arch Linux)
Compiler:          Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.18-ARCH

Ok, I try to describe the problem I found.

Today I used my notebook at school where we access the Internet throught a local proxy on the school lan.
In order to use the Internet I set up correctly konqueror's proxy (manual setting the proxy IP, port). I successfully used konqueror to browse the web.

However when I get back home I forget to remove the proxy setting from konqueror. Obviously the proxy were not available from my home lan.

I then started kopete. Gtalk, I don't know why, worked, while MSN did not. The MSN icon simply flipped but after some seconds returned gray again.

I then started analysing the problem. I understood that I left the proxy setting in konqueror. I set again on "direct connection to the Internet" then kopete started working again.

Now I guess that kopete MSN were aware of the proxy setting and tryied to connect to it.

However if connection to the proxy fails (is this case) kopete simply does anything returning unconnected.

The user should be notified of connection problems if proxy server is used.

Thanks,

Fabio Varesano

Comment 1 Gokdeniz Karadag 2008-05-24 16:56:55 UTC

I have tested the same case with kopete version 0.12.7 that came with kde 3.5.9 gentoo packages. Not sure about MSN Plugin's version. 

Enabling and disabling manually set proxy(which does not work at the moment) toggles my ability to connect to msn.

Msn icon flaps wings then stops without any warning. There should be a connection error message displayed.

Comment 2 Stef Louwers 2008-07-07 16:13:03 UTC

Proxy settings currently don't work in kde4 at all, so this bug is blocked in kde4 at the moment.

Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2008-11-15 06:08:56 UTC

We've completely replaced the current MSN implementation with a new MSN implementation which  If you continue to experience this bug after testing the new implementation (which can be gotten from our subversion repository or with the KDE 4.2 Beta 1 release), PLEASE, open a new bug rather than reopening this bug. Thank you for your time and efforting in helping us find and fix problems in Kopete.