IP address blocked on certain site

Aplin, Justin M jmaplin at ufl.edu
Fri Feb 4 03:25:05 UTC 2011


On 2/3/2011 10:23 PM, Robert Ransom wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21:34 -0500
> "Aplin, Justin M"<jmaplin at ufl.edu>  wrote:
>
>> On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
>>> I am using Torbutton.  It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes?
>> In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo,
>> which in turn sends the traffic to the SOCKS port of Tor. Disabling
>> Torbutton and entering the Tor SOCKS information into Firefox's network
>> configuration would skip the Polipo part, and eliminate any problems you
>> might be having with some hidden Polipo cache.
> Turning off 'Use Polipo' in the Torbutton Preferences dialog would be
> easier and much safer.
>
>
> Robert Ransom

Do this. I haven't used Tor as a client in months, I'd completely 
forgotten this was an option. My bad.

~Justin Aplin

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