[tor-talk] Proxy Use 101

[Adrian Crenshaw]

Hi Rodger and gang,
    On a related note, from what you said in this thread and the fact polipo
is not in the Alpha I downloaded, I assume polipo is going away?  In the new
model, what is Tor doing as far as filtering things on the app level when it
comes to the webbrowser? Just relying on Torbutton/the custom browser? I'm
guessing it was mentioned in a blog post, so I am looking around.

Thanks,
Adrian

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:09:12AM +0000, Jack Waugh wrote:
> > When you configure Firefox to point to an HTTP proxy and a SOCKS proxy,
> >how does Firefox know which to use?
>
> It uses the http proxy if it's set and you've attempted an http
> connection. If it's not set and you've attempted an http connection,
> it falls back to the socks proxy.
>
> If you're doing a non-http connection, it ignores your http proxy.
>
> In the old model where you should use polipo, you would set your http
> proxy to point to polipo and your socks proxy to point to tor. In the
> new model where polipo isn't needed anymore, you should simply set your
> socks proxy to point to tor.
>
> In any case, even if you use polipo, you should set your socks proxy so
> you will capture protocols that aren't even configurable on the proxy
> config page.
>
> Hope that helps,
> --Roger
>
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