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Fix SOCKS5 CHAP authentication to be more robust; the current stuff depends on the attributes coming in in a specific order and the whole authentication having a maximum length of 20 bytes. Big thanks to Jonathan Rudolph ("simple" on IRC) for helping figure out what was wrong.

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.