On Saturday 22 August 2009 10:33:01 downie - wrote: > From: secur...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk > > > To: or-t...@seul.org > > Subject: Re: Annoying loop situation > > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:46:57 +0100 > > > > On Friday 21 August 2009 23:07:22 downie - wrote: > > > > > On 08/21/2009 10:52 AM, Bob Williams wrote: > > > > > > I have both privoxy and torbutton installed. When I setup > > > > > > Firefox's proxy settings to use http and ssl through 127.0.0.1 > > > > > > port 8118 and SOCKS host 127.0.0.1 port 9050, torbutton enables > > > > > > itself. If I then disable torbutton (I'm only really interested > > > > > > in running a tor relay) the Firefox settings revert to 'No > > > > > > proxy'. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Bob > > > > > > Isn't there the additional complication that if you want to use > > > Privoxy without Tor, you have to change the Privoxy config file as > > > well? I don't think Torbutton can do that for you. > > > > In what way? > > [edit] > > > forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 . > > forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 . > > As I understand it (Library/Privoxy/user-manual/config.html Section 7.5.2) > those lines forward all requests from Privoxy through Tor: if you want > Privoxy filtering without using Tor in client mode, you have to comment > those lines out. Then if at some point you *do* want to use Tor in client > mode (still with Privoxy), you have to reinstate them. Wiser heads may need > to confirm this... > GD > That makes sense. It may be that I'll have to settle for not using privoxy for my normal browsing. My main 'tor' aim is to provide a relay. If I browse with torbutton enabled, I get funny results for Google searches, in languages that depend on the location of the exit node ;)
-- Bob