On Sun, 16 May 2010 08:35:29 +0100, AG wrote: > Dear all > > On an up-to-date testing machine, I am using Iceweasel + tor + privoxy. > Florian helped me with an issue like this sometime back, but revisiting > his helpful advice has not helped on this occasion. > > The situation is as follows: > > Using Iceweasel, I enable the tor button and receive a warning message > "Tor proxy test: local HTTP proxy is unreachable. Is polipo running > properly?"
I used Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3.0.19 and the same + tor + privoxy configuration. After upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 Firefox get upgraded to v. 3.6 and all at a sudden I get the same error message as you describe. In my case the problem was resolved by a number of random setting manipulations within Tor Button Properties: - open Tor Button Properties window; - run Test Settings (it will fail); - check "Use custom proxy settings" radio button instead of the default "Use the recommended settings..." - run Test Settings (in my case it failed again) - check "Use the recommended settings..." back and run Test Settings again. At this point all at sudden I get a positive test result and since than everything works just fine. I know all of it does not make much sense but in my case I get it fixed. Mystery. :-) It looks like this is a bug in Tor Button (or could be in FF itself?) PS. I do not remember exactly but it could be that in addition of all of the above I unchecked the Use Polipo button and than after a test checked it back again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hsp39k$do...@dough.gmane.org
