I have a local squid proxy I use for caching purposes, and for ease of use, I set up an http_proxy and https_proxy variables, and set them global in /etc/profile.d/proxy.sh Today, I tried logging into my jabber account, and it failed.. upon inspection, I noticed it's trying to connect through the proxy, which is denying (CONNECT to non-ssl port is not allowed by default). KDE is setup NOT use any proxy, and its applications respect that (such as rekonq). The jabber account has no proxy settings. Yet, telepathy is honouring this environment variable, and I see no way of overriding this behaviour.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup a global http_proxy (and/or https_proxy) variable 2. reboot and try to connect a jabber account Actual Results: It attempts connecting through the proxy Expected Results: to ignore it and use KDE's proxy settings, or at least allow me to override.
Global settings override anything we set. Sorry. You can try and take it up with the upstream component https://bugs.freedesktop.org product "telepathy" component " gabble".
Aha! I see who the culprit is, now.. Thanks for your help :-)