Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

[AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>]

On 20/03/11 13:55, Brad Alexander wrote:
> Hi AG,
>
> Can you define what you mean by "not playing nicely together"? I am 
> running privoxy and tor on an up-to-date sid machine, and do not see 
> problems with it. I rebuilt this machine back in 2007-ish, and have 
> used the same config since.
>
> Can you elaborate on the problems?
> --b
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:44 PM, AG <computing.account@googlemail.com 
> <mailto:computing.account@googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     You are quite right of course - privoxy used to be the standard
>     proxying application, but for whatever reason about a year or so
>     ago Tor and privoxy no longer played nicely together on Debian and
>     polipo became Tor's new best friend, again on Debian machines
>     (can't say about other distros).  The inner workings of all of
>     this are beyond me, I confess, so this is only from a user's
>     perspective.
>
>     AG

Hi Brad

By not playing nicely, I meant that Tor and Privoxy were conflicting, 
and at the time Polipo was the recommended solution.  If you check 
through the list archives you'll find the issue - about a year or so 
back.  From your description it would appear that the conflicts have 
been resolved, but I have now settled using polipo and hence haven't 
double-checked on the status of privoxy.

Sorry I can't be more help specifically.

AG