With tor 0.3.4 pidgin can connects successfully.While outside the home or waiting at the airport, you’ll often rely on public Wi-Fi. This browser is configured to use Tor.ĭebian unstable - pidgin 2.13.0, tor 0.3.5.7

$ curl -socks5 localhost:9050 -socks5-hostname localhost:9050 -s | cat | grep -m 1 Congratulations | xargsĬongratulations. This sounds like an error for pidgin, as I can run curl by command line without any authentication: (15:28:32) socks5 proxy: Got auth response. (15:28:32) socks5 proxy: Connection in progress If I enter any username/password it connects successfully: (15:26:20) connection: Connection error on 0x56057f249790 (reason: 0 description: Unable to connect) (15:26:20) jabber: Unable to find alternative XMPP connection methods after failing to connect directly. (15:26:20) dnssrv: res_query returned an error (15:26:20) dnssrv: querying TXT record for : _ Trying to find alternative connection methods, like BOSH. (15:26:20) jabber: Couldn't connect directly to. (15:26:20) proxy: Connection attempt failed: general SOCKS server failure (15:26:20) socks5 proxy: general SOCKS server failure (15:26:20) socks5 proxy: Got auth response.

(15:26:20) socks5 proxy: Connection in progress Trying next SRV record or connecting directly.

(15:26:20) jabber: Unable to connect to server: general SOCKS server failure It fails with the same error when I use ' Tor/Privacy? (SOCKS5)' proxy setting. When use SOCKS5 and leave username password empty pidgin fails with an error error. If I use tor as proxy in pidgin with SOCKS4 everything works fine (localhost, port 9050).

Tor proxy server error