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Add yet another URL fetching function. This one takes an account as a parameter. It's needed because the Yahoo 16 code uses URL fetching as part of its login process, and without giving the account to purple_proxy_connect (which wass called in purple_util_fetch_url_request_len), we ignore account- specific proxy configurations. This is a bad thing, as evidenced by Adium's ticket 12231. In adding this function, I deprecated purple_util_fetch_url_request_len and made it a shell that calls this new function with a NULL account parameter. This maintains the previous behavior without a mountain of duplicated code.

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.