Using tor in http proxied enviroment

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:55:48PM +0100, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> HttpProxy localhost:8888
> 
> When I try to set up an application (such as mIRC) to use SOCKS5 proxy
> at localhost:9050 it doesn't give me any error.. it just times out 60s
> later. The only message that tor gives me is:

http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#HttpProxy

Hope that helps,
(Deja vu?)
--Roger