[tor-bugs] #1676 [Tor bundles/installation]: Audit jabber/XMPP support for pidgin

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#1676: Audit jabber/XMPP support for pidgin
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 Reporter:  katmagic                  |          Owner:  ioerror 
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  critical                  |      Milestone:          
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:          
 Keywords:  pidgin, DNS               |         Parent:  #2918   
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [comment:25 ioerror]:
 > I think that we don't need to write anything new - we simply do not
 support XMPP related DNS SRV requests at this time.

 Let me translate that into user-speak:
 > tor im browser bundle doesnt work

 Users won't know that they need to perform a DNS query by hand.  They
 won't even know what that ''means''.  Thus, we need to make Pidgin perform
 the DNS SRV queries it needs for XMPP through Tor, using DNS-over-TCP.

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