OK, as per Sebastien's comment, have raised a bug on Pidgin (#9552): http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9552
Delayed since Pidgin's development server kept crashing on me. Included all the pertinent detail from here. Let's see if anyone picks this up... ** Bug watch added: Pidgin Trac #9552 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9552 -- Bugs behind proxy server with/without authentication https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164301 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs