On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:17 +0200, Robin Kipp mli...@robin-kipp.net
wrote:
Hi all,
so, I'd like to use Tor on my Mac, and access the web through its network
of servers. So far so good, but as I'm familiar with Linux and the shell,
I don't want to bring up Tor using the Vidalia GUI, but rather call it
from Terminal and later on have both Tor and Polipo launched as daemons.
So, I had a look at both the Torrc.sample file (Which I then renamed to
torrc and moved to /Applications/Vidalia.app/tor). Also, I had a look at
polipo.conf, however didn't change any of the settings. Then, I launched
Tor as follows:
Robins-MacBook-Air:MacOS owomac$ ./tor
Aug 06 20:01:55.509 [notice] Tor v0.2.1.30. This is experimental
software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Darwin
x86_64)
Aug 06 20:01:55.512 [notice] Initialized libevent version 2.0.10-stable
using method kqueue. Good.
Aug 06 20:01:55.512 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Aug 06 20:01:55.513 [notice] Parsing GEOIP file.
Aug 06 20:01:55.938 [notice] OpenSSL OpenSSL 0.9.8p 16 Nov 2010 looks
like version 0.9.8m or later; I will try SSL_OP to enable renegotiation
Aug 06 20:01:57.392 [notice] We now have enough directory information to
build circuits.
Aug 06 20:01:57.392 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor
network.
Aug 06 20:01:58.635 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with
first hop.
Aug 06 20:02:02.963 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor
circuit.
Aug 06 20:02:03.924 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks
like client functionality is working.
Aug 06 20:02:03.924 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done.
Afterwards, I launched Polipo in a separate process:
Disabling disk cache: No such file or directory
Disabling local tree: No such file or directory
Established listening socket on port 8123.
This, in itself, is already weird, as Polipo, by default, is supposed to
bind to port 8118 as opposed to 8123. So then, when I configure the
preferences for my network card and specify the web proxy and secure web
proxy, I specify localhost as the hostname and 8123 as the port. When I
confirm and apply the config changes, I can access the web just fine
through Safari (I'm visually impaired, and unfortunately can't use
Firefox on the Mac due to the lack of screen reader support). When I open
a website such as Google in Safari after applying the new settings, the
site loads just fine. However, when I open check.torproject.org, I get a
message saying that I'm not using for. Also, browsing to a site like
whatismyip.org shows my own IP, not the IP of a Tor server. When I change
my proxy settings to port 8118, however, it doesn't work at all - Safari
reports that it can't connect to the proxy. So then, I tried quitting
both Tor and Polipo services and then launched the Vidalia GUI.
This then reported that Tor was running, and in fact, when I set up
proxy connectivity again and set the port to 8118, it worked just fine.
I then tried removing the /Applications/Vidalia.app folder, the
/Library/Vidalia folder and the ~/.tor folders. Afterwards, I tried
setting up everything once again, however the issue is still present.
So, when I call both the Tor and Polipo services from Terminal, Polipo
obviously binds to a wrong port and seems to accept and forward
connections, but they are not routed through Tor and thus Polipo isn't
working properly. Only when both services are launched through the
Vidalia GUI, everything seems to be just fine. So, what do I need to do
in order to get them to work from Terminal?
Thanks for any help!
Robin
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Are you pointing Polipo to the correct polipo.conf file when launching
it from the command line? Such as
/Applications/Vidalia.app/Contents/MacOS/polipo -c
/Applications/Vidalia.app/Contents/Resources/polipo.conf
?
GD
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