[tor-talk] tor http proxy

[Gaofeng HE]

Thanks a lot! I will test it.

On 2011-10-27 12:59, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 08:52:02AM +0800, Gaofeng HE wrote:
>> I have used the kingate tool to setup a proxy server, including a Socks and Http proxy. When I configured tor to use the socks proxy, everything is OK. But when the http proxy is used,
>> it is neglected by the tor.
>
> Your http proxy needs to accept CONNECT requests. That means it should
> be what many people would call an 'https proxy'.
>
> Also, when you configure Tor to use it, you need to use the httpsproxy
> directive in your torrc, not the httpproxy directive.
>
> If you're configuring via Vidalia, that means you need to set your proxy
> as "HTTP / HTTPS", not "HTTP".
>
> (Using only a plain http proxy means you only proxy your unencrypted
> directory fetches, which isn't very useful, especially now that Tor
> tunnels its directory fetches over the TLS (https) connection by default.)
>
> Hope that helps,
> --Roger
>
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