On Sun, 16 May 2010 07:52:06 -0400, Snood wrote: On 05/16/2010 11:34 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > 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.
> I'm sure it's possible to still use privoxy, but I believy that the Tor > project people are recommending polipo instead. It's better if we keep conversation in public. :-) Currently, yes - Tor provides configuration instructions mentioning Polipo instead of Privoxy. But just a year ago they mentioned Privoxy instead. I do not know why is the change. As far as I know Privoxy is superior to Polipo. Unless things changed in the last year, that I'm not aware of. And actually to me it does not look as a "recommendation" but rather a promotion of one project in favour of another. IMHO it's more some sort of "politics" than a recommendation. It's the same as Ubuntu all at as sudden damped GIMP, Pidgin, xsane, etc in favour of other worse and some times (like in case of Simple Scan) completely useless applications. I do believe Canonical had their reasons. But I also believe that they are based on the actual application virtues and value. I do not argue that Tor would work just fine with Polipo. I'm sure it will. I just do not see enough reason for me or any one else to change existing and perfectly functioning configuration, just because Tor decided to promote Polipo. -- 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/hspn5i$ab...@dough.gmane.org
