diff libpurple/proxy.h @ 31532:b9f58c31afc7

proxy: Use account proxy when making standalone SOCKS5 connections. This ends up being potentially weird in that you may end up tunnelling a SOCKS5 proxy connection though another SOCKS5 proxy. It may mean that non-IBB file xmpp transfers work more consistently on restricted networks, but may make the situation worse some situations e.g. when a proxy is required to connect to the xmpp server, but you want to send a file to someone on your local network. What it does do though is to allow you to prevent the streamhost from knowing where you're connecting from. Fixes #13928

--- a/libpurple/proxy.h	Tue May 03 02:26:35 2011 +0000
+++ b/libpurple/proxy.h	Tue May 03 04:57:17 2011 +0000
@@ -289,11 +289,15 @@
 /**
  * Makes a connection through a SOCKS5 proxy.
  *
+ * Note that if the account that is making the connection uses a proxy, this
+ * connection to a SOCKS5 proxy will be made through the account proxy.
+ *
  * @param handle     A handle that should be associated with this
  *                   connection attempt.  The handle can be used
  *                   to cancel the connection attempt using the
  *                   purple_proxy_connect_cancel_with_handle()
  *                   function.
+ * @param account    The account making the connection.
  * @param gpi        The PurpleProxyInfo specifying the proxy settings
  * @param host       The destination host.
  * @param port       The destination port.