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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you HTTP-based retrieval of the Yahoo CS server address, thus eliminating the need for the old "Pager server" account option. This method makes us a bit less distinguishable from the official client, as the official clients do the same HTTP request. Fixes #11555.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the
HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.