Couple more questions

[M]

I set it up through 8118 and it connected through TOR and Privoxy. Should i
keep it this way or use SOCKS?

Any replies to my other questions?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Sven Anderson <sven at anderson.de> wrote:

>
> Am 21.08.2008 um 07:58 schrieb M:
>
>  Hey guys, a few more questions for the experts:
>>
>> 1) I noticed that the Tor-IM-Browser package uses GAIM, routed through
>> SOCKS 5:9050. If I am using GAIM with TOR/Privoxy, should i set Gaim to use
>> SOCKS 5:9050 or,  or HTTP 127.0.0.1:8118 and routing it through privoxy?
>>
>
> No, Privoxy is an HTTP-Proxy AFAIK. GAIM uses XMPP (Jabber) as protocol, so
> Privoxy can probably not handle it. But if GAIM is not a patched version, I
> fear that there are many possible information leaks. For example when
> triggering a file transfer, the real IP address might be disclosed.
>
>
> Sven
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