On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 23:19 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote: > I get > an error saying that Tor is not an HTTP transport proxy or some such > (I > forget the exact message, this happened hours ago).
This comes from a program using Tor as an HTTP proxy. It presents itself as a SOCKS proxy. If this was from Thunderbird, you probably just have it pointing at Tor (by default, localhost:9050) rather than at Privoxy (localhost:8118) in the HTTP Proxy field in the configuration.
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