Polipo web proxy (was Re: Tor and Google Image search)

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:49:56PM -0500, Mike Perry wrote:
> 7) The definition of parent proxy is different between Polipo and
> Privoxy. It turns out Privoxy has teh awesoma poweru of being able to
> have an HTTP proxy after Tor. This is useful for sites that block Tor,
> such as slashdot & wikipedia (for posting), craigslist, IRC, etc etc
> etc. I was unable to find a way for Polipo to do this. It made me
> sad. Course it aint exactly convenient for Privoxy, but at least it's
> there when you absolutely need to start some flame wars on /. ;)

Polipo can do this too. Just set both your parentProxy and your
socksParentProxy.

--Roger