Configuration errors using tor, privoxy & polipo
Dear all
On an up-to-date testing machine, I am using Iceweasel + tor + privoxy.
Florian helped me with an issue like this sometime back, but revisiting
his helpful advice has not helped on this occasion.
The situation is as follows:
Using Iceweasel, I enable the tor button and receive a warning message
"Tor proxy test: local HTTP proxy is unreachable. Is polipo running
properly?"
Well, no because polipo wasn't installed - why and when this suddenly
became a necessity I don't know, but anyway I installed polipo and
configured it according to the tutorial on
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polipo which, in my circumstances,
required me to uncomment this line in the config file:
socksParentProxy = localhost:9050
Having restarted the daemons, and still getting the same error and no
connection, I pointed the browser at privoxy as per the polipo
configuration page referred to above, in the preferences/ network
settings tab, and in the polipo config file, I uncommented the line:
socksParentProxy = localhost:9050
I then restarted polipo, double-checked the privoxy config file to
ensure that forwarding was still set as required and restarted the tor
and privoxy daemons. However, I still get the same error messages
(basically cannot connect to web-pages) and the tor test gives the same
results as before.
From researching this on the web, I am unable to ascertain whether or
not I even need polipo, but the preferences settings tab for the tor
button have a check-box for using polipo, so it appears as if tor is now
expecting polipo to be installed and running as default. But, I have
now reached the limit of what I know what to do or can figure out. I am
also conscious of the risk of screwing things up further in an effort to
fix this, so before proceeding further would like to ask this list for
help and advice.
I appreciate any thoughts/ ideas.
Thanks
AG
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