Re: privoxy refusing connections?

[Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com>]

On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > > On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it
> > > >
> > > > sudo apt-get install privoxy
> > > >
> > > > And configured my browser to use the proxy at
> > > > 127.0.0.1 port 8118
> > > >
> > > > I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"
> > > >
> > > > I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's empty and
> > > > the config file has a line:
> > > > listen-address  localhost:8118
> > > >
> > > > Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Kailash
> > > Are you sure that privoxy is running?
> > Here's the output from ps.
> > $ps -ax | grep privoxy
> >    1601 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile
> > /var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config
> >
> > So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kailash
> Yes, it does. Does "localhost" resolve to 127.0.0.1 correctly? I would
> be surprised if it did not, but it's worth checking.
$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms

I wonder if it's something in the config file, but I couldn't figure it out.