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Allow the user to specify their own BOSH url in the Connect Server option If the Connect Server starts with "http(s?)://", use it as a BOSH connection URL and go connect to it. The use case for this is someone who wants to connect to their Google Talk account from behind a firewall that blocks everything but HTTP (and not just port 80), so the user runs a standalone BOSH Connection Manager on their home computer and connects through that. I'm not entirely happy with the how this leaves the advanced UI panel. The user specifies a BOSH connection port as part of the URL, whereas the non-srv connections use the separate 'port' account option.

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.