Thus spake Roger Dingledine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:49:56PM -0500, Mike Perry wrote: > > 7) The definition of parent proxy is different between Polipo and > > Privoxy. It turns out Privoxy has teh awesoma poweru of being able to > > have an HTTP proxy after Tor. This is useful for sites that block Tor, > > such as slashdot & wikipedia (for posting), craigslist, IRC, etc etc > > etc. I was unable to find a way for Polipo to do this. It made me > > sad. Course it aint exactly convenient for Privoxy, but at least it's > > there when you absolutely need to start some flame wars on /. ;) > > Polipo can do this too. Just set both your parentProxy and your > socksParentProxy.
Woah. That's very odd behavior, especially that it would magically decide to put the HTTP one after the socks one. From the manual I assumed they were mutually exclusive. Privoxy also allows the flexibility to do it for specific hosts/domains/wildcards (ex: irc.) though, which is nice. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
