gwget and tor?

[Aplin, Justin M]

On 5/26/2010 7:39 AM, emigrant wrote:
> is there a way to use gwget with tor?
> most of the times i download a direct link in tor enabled firefox it
> stops in the middle despite the internet connection is good.
>    
I don't know about gwget, but plain wget supports http proxies, which 
you can point at Polipo. If you're only going to need to do this every 
once in a while, I'd pop open a terminal and do the following:
HTTP_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118 && HTTPS_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118 && 
FTP_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118
export HTTP_PROXY && export HTTPS_PROXY && export FTP_PROXY
wget your://url.to/download.here

If that doesn't work for you, open your Polipo configuration file and 
see what port it's set up to run on, and change the bit after the colon 
in the environmental variables. Wget will pick up on the environmental 
variables and should route your download through Tor. These settings 
will only last until you either close the shell, or until you log out (I 
forget which and can't make it to my linux box to check), so if you'll 
be doing this a lot you can add the following lines to your .wgetrc file 
to have them executed automatically:

proxy = on
HTTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118
HTTPS_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118
FTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118

To resume an interrupted download, just add the -c option, like so:

wget -c your://url.to/download.here

> thanks.
>
>    

Anytime =)

~japlin
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