On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:40 -0400, Aplin, Justin M wrote: > On 5/26/2010 7:39 AM, emigrant wrote: > > is there a way to use gwget with tor? > > most of the times i download a direct link in tor enabled firefox it > > stops in the middle despite the internet connection is good. > > > I don't know about gwget, but plain wget supports http proxies, which > you can point at Polipo. If you're only going to need to do this every > once in a while, I'd pop open a terminal and do the following: > HTTP_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118 && HTTPS_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118 && > FTP_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118 > export HTTP_PROXY && export HTTPS_PROXY && export FTP_PROXY > wget your://url.to/download.here > > If that doesn't work for you, open your Polipo configuration file and > see what port it's set up to run on, and change the bit after the colon > in the environmental variables. Wget will pick up on the environmental > variables and should route your download through Tor. These settings > will only last until you either close the shell, or until you log out (I > forget which and can't make it to my linux box to check), so if you'll > be doing this a lot you can add the following lines to your .wgetrc file > to have them executed automatically: > > proxy = on > HTTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118 > HTTPS_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118 > FTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118 > > To resume an interrupted download, just add the -c option, like so: > > wget -c your://url.to/download.here > > > thanks. > > > > > > Anytime =) > > ~japlin > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
thank you very much for this, i will try this way next time i download. and thanks to Scott Bennett also. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
