Question about Tor/Proxy server and connection type
Ringo Kamens
2600denver at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 23:59:15 UTC 2008
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hgiuh ghj wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently building a school project about the Tor network, I intend to set up a live demonstration but I have some questions:
>
> I currently use Tor with Privoxy, I noticed that all the connections made to a Web server are "close" instead of "Keep-Alive" for common HTTP/1.1 connections.
>
> I read a thread about it there: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Apr-2007/msg00027.html
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> It seems that using another proxy (with or without Privoxy ?), Polipo, allows you to connect to a server using Keep-Alive connection type.
>
> So, to sum up, the connection type is defined by the proxy server used with Tor ?
>
> I would like also to show that is possible to do it, is there any tutorial or something similar to set up that ?
>
> Regards,
> David Lingus
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If you use Polipo without Privoxy, then it will use keep-alive requests
which help you load pages much faster. Tor is just a TCP SOCKS4a proxy,
so as long as it's TCP traffic, Tor will be able to forward it.
Comrade Ringo Kamens
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