Re: Can Tor run WITHOUT Pivoxy ?

2007-12-29 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I tend to use polipo on my machines (physical and virtual), which act as clients. Polipo's optimized support for HTTP 1.1's nifty features are just utter win. =:oD If polipo is as fast as a car, by comparison, Privoxy looks like molasses being poure

Re: Can Tor run WITHOUT Pivoxy ?

2007-12-28 Thread Michael Holstein
>From my point of view Tor cannot exist without an installed and running Pivoxy. Sure it can .. I've been doing it with Firefox and the "foxyproxy" plug-in for some time. The main functional element that Privoxy adds is Socks v4a support (namely, the ability to pass domain names and not

Re: Can Tor run WITHOUT Pivoxy ?

2007-12-28 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:03:30PM +0100, kazaam wrote: :And If I use Tor just for anonymous chatting? There's no need to put an http-proxy into tor. Also not everyone uses privoxy but polipo... Also if you are only running a server there's no need for privoxy, and other proxies could probably be

Re: Can Tor run WITHOUT Pivoxy ?

2007-12-28 Thread kazaam
And If I use Tor just for anonymous chatting? There's no need to put an http-proxy into tor. Also not everyone uses privoxy but polipo... On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:14:57 +0100 "Ben Stover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder why Tor and Pivoxy are two separate programs. > > From my point of view

Can Tor run WITHOUT Pivoxy ?

2007-12-28 Thread Ben Stover
I wonder why Tor and Pivoxy are two separate programs. >From my point of view Tor cannot exist without an installed and running Pivoxy. So why are there two programs? Shouldn't they be merged into one program package named with one name ? Ben