Switching Tor on and off on Mac OS X Tiger

Jean-Paul Desbruères iminium at wanadoo.fr
Thu Jan 26 16:21:47 UTC 2006


Thanks a lot for your help.

I think I am going to use Firefox for protected surfing only.

Le 26 janv. 06 à 17:13, Jay Goodman Tamboli a écrit :

> On 2006.01.26, at 11:00, Jean-Paul Desbruères wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I am using Safari
>
> Depending on what you're asking there are really two ways to  
> control Tor when you're using Safari.
>
> If you're talking about turning Tor on and off completely, the  
> easiest way is to go to the "Network" System Preference panel and  
> uncheck the proxy settings. As someone else suggested, you could  
> also create separate network locations, one with proxies and one  
> without, though switching locations would interrupt connections.
>
> Something else you can try is adding hosts you want fast access to  
> to the proxy exceptions list in the Network panel. Access to these  
> will be fast, but not anonymous.
>
> For both situations, you can also edit your Privoxy config file (/ 
> Library/Privoxy/config). You can comment out the "forward-socks4a /  
> localhost:9050 ." line to turn off Tor completely, or you can add  
> lines below that to keep certain hosts from going through Tor. For  
> example, I have the following lines in my config:
>
> forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
> forward   192.168.1.1 .
> forward   160.79.128.22 . # Digitally Imported streaming music
> forward   swcdn.apple.com . # Apple system updates downloads
> forward   kh.google.com   . # Google Earth
> forward   mail.google.com:443   . # Gmail
> forward   en.wikipedia.org .
>
> /jgt
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