How-To route other protocols through Privoxy (e.g. IRC)

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Its a SOCKS-->HTTP translator of sorts. In other news, I updated the 
"Firefox Performance with Tor" entry to reference the FasterFox plugin, 
and removed the reference to the Squid proxy acceleration procedure that 
we all deemed a "bad thing" several months ago.
    In other news, speaking of ETM, There is a mirror plus other 
documents at http://anonymity-portal.us.

~Andrew

Thomas Sjögren wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:13:10AM -0800, Anothony Georgeo wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was reading the site "ExitTheMatrix" (
>> http://jdoe.freeshell.org/howtos/ExitTheMatrix/ar01s03.html
>> ) and I found directions to route non-HTTP protocols
>> through Privoxy...
>>
>> Quoted from ExitTheMatrix:
>> --------------------------
>> If you intend to use Privoxy to access non-web ports
>> (such as IRC), you may want to edit "default.action"
>> and replace the line containing "limit-connect" with
>> "+limit-connect{1-}" to allow privoxy to connect to
>> all ports.
>> --------------------------
>>
>> Has anyone tried this?  I thought Privoxy was only an
>> HTTP srubber.
>>     
>
> See http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#Irssi for
> instructions on how to use Irssi and Privoxy.
>
>   
>> What would the benifit be to routing other protocols
>> through Privoxy?  
>>     
>
> See http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS
>
> /Thomas
>   
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