It's my experience that Polipo provides for faster proxying than Privoxy (running both on a recent Ubuntu). However, Polipo is not uniformly stable on Windows. I use Privoxy with local Tor instances on Windows, but Polipo on Ubuntu.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 18:00, Jim McClanahan <jimmy...@copper.net> wrote: > Jan Reister wrote: > > > > Il 28/09/2009 15:25, Eugen Leitl ha scritto: > > > Why the switch to Polipo from Privoxy? Is Privoxy officially > > > deprecated now? > > > > I just found out today and am wondering myself. From hearsay, Polipo > > should perform faster and better. > > There was a somewhat extended discussion about Privoxy vs Polipo on this > list not too long ago (a month or two?). You may wish to review that. > My recollection of that discussion is that Polipo being better was > called into question. Certainly Privoxy is alive and well. Besides > plugging DNS leaks, the two programs serve somewhat different purposes. > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ >