On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 10:09:39PM -0400, Nathan Freitas wrote: > > > On May 2, 2014 6:34:25 PM EDT, intrigeri <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Nathan Freitas wrote (02 May 2014 19:44:35 GMT) : > >> We are also experimenting with a switch to Polipo > >> (https://github.com/jech/polipo.git) from Privoxy. > > > >Jacob was strongly advocating that we do the exact opposite change in > >Tails, so I'm curious why. > > Yes, it seems that when Polipo was removed from TBB (since it was no longer > needed for Firefox proxying), that around the same time (2011?) there were > some serious security bugs discovered, and development on Polipo was dormant. > This led to Tor switching back to recommending Privoxy as the HTTP proxy for > those that need one. > > However, Polipo is being actively maintained again, and the known issues > addressed. I wanted to explore its use with Orbot because it does seem to use > less memory than Privoxy, and is a bit faster as well. It is also cleaner to > integrate due to the project being available as a git repo. > > If there is conclusive evidence or a community decision that Polipo must not > be used, I am willing to follow that, but for now, we are experimenting in > alpha-ville.
But as I can say in TBB does not used nor polipo nor privoxy. What is the purpose of proxy for Orbit? -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
