Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-05 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/4/2011 6:15 PM, Curious Kid wrote: You seem to have the misconception that Tor only uses one circuit at any given time, ... Tor builds several circuits that you can use at any given time. I think three is default... I understood there were several circuits for nodes in the middle, but d

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread Robert Ransom
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:52:25 + "Geoff Down" wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21 -0500, "Aplin, Justin M" > wrote: > > On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > > I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes? > > > > In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox tr

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread Curious Kid
>Why, after getting all new nodes & especially new exit node IP address (I >confirmed was a new address), would Tor send an old IP address (? from >memory) to the site? Doesn't make sense. If Tor WAS sending an old >address > > >(to any site) after getting new exit address,

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread cmeclax-sazri
On Friday 04 February 2011 16:10:13 Joe Btfsplk wrote: > So how does that relate to Tor? Do sites using this see Tor as a > robot? I didn't even get on the site. Plus, there're no files to d/l > from it - at least not from an avg users capability. Probably the web server saw so many accesses fr

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/4/2011 2:42 PM, cmeclax-sazri wrote: robots.txt is a file put on some websites as a directive to robots. If you run a wiki, and you want only current versions, not the hundreds of previous versions of every page, indexed, you could put a directive in robots.txt, or label the pages themselve

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread cmeclax-sazri
On Friday 04 February 2011 13:38:14 Joe Btfsplk wrote: > No ideas yet on what "automated software that doesn't follow /robots.txt > is forbidden," means? robots.txt is a file put on some websites as a directive to robots. If you run a wiki, and you want only current versions, not the hundreds of

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/4/2011 9:43 AM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: This just in! I discovered Polipo wasn't configured to start w/ Tor, as of today. Don't know what happened. When install the bundle, usually sets up Polipo up automatically (did in past Vidalia bundle vers.). So, set it up thru Vidalia UI "Setting

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/4/2011 8:52 AM, Geoff Down wrote: I understood that Firefox couldn't be trusted to not leak DNS requests, hence the need for an HTTP proxy like Polipo. I'm running an old version of Firefox though - are the newer ones fixed in this regard? GD Good point. Don't know if Fx is fixed on t

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/3/2011 10:23 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21:34 -0500 "Aplin, Justin M" wrote: On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes? In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo, which in turn

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-04 Thread Geoff Down
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21 -0500, "Aplin, Justin M" wrote: > On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes? > > In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo, > which in turn sends the traffic to the SOCKS por

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 2/3/2011 10:23 PM, Robert Ransom wrote: On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21:34 -0500 "Aplin, Justin M" wrote: On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes? In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo, which in turn

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Robert Ransom
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21:34 -0500 "Aplin, Justin M" wrote: > On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes? > > In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo, > which in turn sends the traffic to the SOCKS po

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes? In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo, which in turn sends the traffic to the SOCKS port of Tor. Disabling Torbutton and entering the Tor SOCKS information

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Joe Btfsplk
The 2nd option of Torbutton under Prefs>Security>Cache, "Block disk and memory cache access during Tor," may be the answer. see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.enable Don't know what would have to do to clear mem cache from Fx activity - shut down computer? (assuming memory cac

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/3/2011 5:09 PM, Aplin, Justin M wrote: On 2/3/2011 5:53 PM, Geoff Down wrote: ... Neither could I. It may be entirely in memory. Nevertheless that was the conclusion I came to. It's not the IP address being cached, it's the response from the site I would say. Your new request is never bei

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Aplin, Justin M
On 2/3/2011 5:53 PM, Geoff Down wrote: ... Neither could I. It may be entirely in memory. Nevertheless that was the conclusion I came to. It's not the IP address being cached, it's the response from the site I would say. Your new request is never being sent (via your new IP) because Polipo is ret

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Geoff Down
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:30 -0600, "Joe Btfsplk" wrote: > On 2/2/2011 5:54 PM, Geoff Down wrote: > > I came to the conclusion that it > > was Polipo cacheing. You can try inserting a 'Pragma: No-cache' header > > using Modify Headers or a similar addon, though that does make you stand > > out. >

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-03 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 2/2/2011 5:54 PM, Geoff Down wrote: I came to the conclusion that it was Polipo cacheing. You can try inserting a 'Pragma: No-cache' header using Modify Headers or a similar addon, though that does make you stand out. Not sure what you mean by "pragma: No-cache" header. How to go about i

Re: IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-02 Thread Geoff Down
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:27 -0600, "Joe Btfsplk" wrote: > Using latest stable Vidalia / Tor bundle for Win (Vista x64). > > Never really had this prob before installing latest ver, but could be > coincidence. When using Tor/ Torbutton, only one site gave message (to > the effect) "the IP addre

IP address blocked on certain site

2011-02-02 Thread Joe Btfsplk
Using latest stable Vidalia / Tor bundle for Win (Vista x64). Never really had this prob before installing latest ver, but could be coincidence. When using Tor/ Torbutton, only one site gave message (to the effect) "the IP address you're using has been determined to be abusing this site ? / s