Annoying loop situation

[downie -]

From: security at barrowhillfarm.org.uk
> To: or-talk at seul.org
> Subject: Re: Annoying loop situation
> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:46:57 +0100
> 
> On Friday 21 August 2009 23:07:22 downie - wrote:
> > > > On 08/21/2009 10:52 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
> > > > > I have both privoxy and torbutton installed. When I setup Firefox's
> > > > > proxy settings to use http and ssl through 127.0.0.1 port 8118 and
> > > > > SOCKS host 127.0.0.1 port 9050, torbutton enables itself. If I then
> > > > > disable torbutton (I'm only really interested in running a tor relay)
> > > > > the Firefox settings revert to 'No proxy'.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Bob
> >
> >  Isn't there the additional complication that if you want to use Privoxy
> > without Tor, you have to change the Privoxy config file as well? I don't
> > think Torbutton can do that for you.
> >
> In what way? 
[edit]
> forward-socks4a	/	127.0.0.1:9050	.
> forward-socks5	/	127.0.0.1:9050	.

As I understand it (Library/Privoxy/user-manual/config.html Section 7.5.2) those lines forward all requests from Privoxy through Tor: if you want Privoxy filtering without using Tor in client mode, you have to comment those lines out. Then if at some point you *do* want to use Tor in client mode (still with Privoxy), you have to reinstate them.
Wiser heads may need to confirm this...
GD

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