[tor-talk] Tor SOCKS?

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Sat Oct 6 06:11:29 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 09:31:57PM +0200, antispam06 at sent.at wrote:
> I have in a folder on a 64bit Linux distro the TBB. I read the Vidalia
> bundle has been discontinued. So I jumped at using this configuration.
> I have read that the socks 5 proxy is on 127.0.0.1:9050. So I tried
> pushing through it a jabber.org connection (XMPP) with Pidgin. Pidgin
> even lists Socks 4, Socks 5 and a Tor/Privacy (Socks). Yet, the
> connection fails with either option.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? TorBrowser is up and works through Tor.
> Vidalia is up and running.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TBBSocksPort

--Roger



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