squid - privoxy - tor problem

Alex Iliev alexander.h.iliev at dartmouth.edu
Fri Mar 4 21:48:58 UTC 2005


Martin Balvers wrote:

> But I think it doesn't works as it is supposed to work.
> I signed up for a mailing-list, and got an automated reply that someone
> with my IP number signed himself up far the list. That was correct, i
> did sign myself up for the list, the problem is that the request
> shouldn't have come from my IP address, but from a Tor exit node.
> I stopped squid and only connected through privoxy and signed myself up
> again, this time I got the mail with a Tor exit node IP.
> 
> Seems to me that the described setup doesn't always use the Tor route. I


I added a line to the squid.conf at the Wiki which forces squid to always 
use the parent proxy (privoxy). Squid does fail if privoxy/tor is not available.

Alex



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