On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:17 +0200, "Robin Kipp" <mli...@robin-kipp.net> wrote: > Hi all, > so, I'd like to use Tor on my Mac, and access the web through its network > of servers. So far so good, but as I'm familiar with Linux and the shell, > I don't want to bring up Tor using the Vidalia GUI, but rather call it > from Terminal and later on have both Tor and Polipo launched as daemons. > So, I had a look at both the Torrc.sample file (Which I then renamed to > torrc and moved to /Applications/Vidalia.app/tor). Also, I had a look at > polipo.conf, however didn't change any of the settings. Then, I launched > Tor as follows: > > Robins-MacBook-Air:MacOS owomac$ ./tor > Aug 06 20:01:55.509 [notice] Tor v0.2.1.30. This is experimental > software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Darwin > x86_64) > Aug 06 20:01:55.512 [notice] Initialized libevent version 2.0.10-stable > using method kqueue. Good. > Aug 06 20:01:55.512 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 > Aug 06 20:01:55.513 [notice] Parsing GEOIP file. > Aug 06 20:01:55.938 [notice] OpenSSL OpenSSL 0.9.8p 16 Nov 2010 looks > like version 0.9.8m or later; I will try SSL_OP to enable renegotiation > Aug 06 20:01:57.392 [notice] We now have enough directory information to > build circuits. > Aug 06 20:01:57.392 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor > network. > Aug 06 20:01:58.635 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with > first hop. > Aug 06 20:02:02.963 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor > circuit. > Aug 06 20:02:03.924 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks > like client functionality is working. > Aug 06 20:02:03.924 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done. > > Afterwards, I launched Polipo in a separate process: > Disabling disk cache: No such file or directory > Disabling local tree: No such file or directory > Established listening socket on port 8123. > > This, in itself, is already weird, as Polipo, by default, is supposed to > bind to port 8118 as opposed to 8123. So then, when I configure the > preferences for my network card and specify the web proxy and secure web > proxy, I specify localhost as the hostname and 8123 as the port. When I > confirm and apply the config changes, I can access the web just fine > through Safari (I'm visually impaired, and unfortunately can't use > Firefox on the Mac due to the lack of screen reader support). When I open > a website such as Google in Safari after applying the new settings, the > site loads just fine. However, when I open check.torproject.org, I get a > message saying that I'm not using for. Also, browsing to a site like > whatismyip.org shows my own IP, not the IP of a Tor server. When I change > my proxy settings to port 8118, however, it doesn't work at all - Safari > reports that it can't connect to the proxy. So then, I tried quitting > both Tor and Polipo services and then launched the Vidalia GUI. > This then reported that Tor was running, and in fact, when I set up > proxy connectivity again and set the port to 8118, it worked just fine. > I then tried removing the /Applications/Vidalia.app folder, the > /Library/Vidalia folder and the ~/.tor folders. Afterwards, I tried > setting up everything once again, however the issue is still present. > So, when I call both the Tor and Polipo services from Terminal, Polipo > obviously binds to a wrong port and seems to accept and forward > connections, but they are not routed through Tor and thus Polipo isn't > working properly. Only when both services are launched through the > Vidalia GUI, everything seems to be just fine. So, what do I need to do > in order to get them to work from Terminal? > Thanks for any help! > Robin > _______________________________________________
Are you pointing Polipo to the correct polipo.conf file when launching it from the command line? Such as /Applications/Vidalia.app/Contents/MacOS/polipo -c /Applications/Vidalia.app/Contents/Resources/polipo.conf ? GD -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk