http://bugs.gpodder.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184





--- Comment #8 from Thomas Perl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  2008-09-13 15:15:39 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > ..except if it can be handled in the Tor client? Can it? I mean, set certain
> > hosts to connect to directly instead of using the Tor network?
> [...]
> But I do think it would be more nature and more reasonable for this
> responsibility lying on the application side not the proxy side and I think it
> is meaningless and confusing if I specified proxy for something, but the proxy
> is actually doing nothing for me. A proxy should only accept(and forward) or
> reject the request, but should not just ignore it silently, I think.

On the other hand, the Proxy (Tor) is only needed to circumvent "the firewall",
right? So, in my opinion, setting the proxy in every app to Tor and then
configuring the Tor proxy to directly connect for "allowed" hosts and
indirectly connect for "blocked" hosts, so one has the maximum speed with the
maximum reachability.

Of course, this is in part by wanting to avoid having to implement yet another
feature, and of course there are other reasons one would like to use Tor, even
if not blocked by "the firewall", but I think that it would be an option to
look at before implementing something like this in gPodder.

Also, I think that it would also benefit other applications, like "wget" if you
could set up a list of "working" hosts and default to proxying through Tor.

The feature is in the bug tracker, and so on the tentative feature wishlist, so
it should get implemented sometime in the future, although it's not a big
priority, and the parts of my free time that are devoted to gPodder are also
limited. The option of maybe configuring the Tor proxy was also a hint that I
might give you if you wanted to have this feature right away without having to
wait.

In the meantime, you should be able to use it without problems, except that for
non-blocked hosts, you have a speed penalty.


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