Tor support
Submitted by fr33domlover
Assigned to Telepathy bugs list
Description
For better privacy and security, it's possible to connect to many IRC services using SSL. Many IRC servers are also available through Tor. SSL support is common, but clients other than the not-very-user-friendly XChat - and maybe GNOME XChat too, never tried - have support for connecting to IRC through Tor.
XChat will always remain necessary, as long as it has features other clients don't have. Maybe other features are less critical (I'm not a Tor/IRC expert), but adding Tor support will allow me and other Tor users to access IRC through the running Tor service.
How it could work: Make it possible to add Onion addresses of Tor hidden services when choosing a server, and connect to them if Tor is running on the system.
Then desktop clients like Gnome's Polari can easily connect through Tor. This may apply to Jabber/XMPP too, or any service which can operate through Tor.