[half-solved] privoxy problem

nTia89 · 2011-12-22 21:54:13

hi to everybody,

i want to use Tor, so i installed it successfully and giving for example:

chromium --proxy-server="socks://localhost:9050"

it works as well....

now i want to extend tor function to every application; reading archwiki i installed privoxy but it doesn't work ....

any idea to use Tor in the terminal ???

thanks

Last edited by nTia89 (2011-12-23 12:08:02)

Lars Stokholm · 2011-12-22 22:06:05

What have you tried? What doesn't work? What do you mean Tor in a terminal? A terminal isn't connected to the Internet.

If you mean wget for example, have a look at the http_proxy environment variable, wget respects that.

Have you read the article on Tor? It's all in there.

fsckd · 2011-12-23 06:13:09

Privoxy and Tor are not the same. I use Privoxy and not Tor. However, usually Tor is used with Privoxy which may be a source of confusion.

nTia89 · 2011-12-23 09:45:42

yes, i want that application execute from a terminal will use TOR service

from the wiki i've read that if i want to use TOR with other application, i must use privoxy; because TOR supports only SOCKS, and with privoxy you can redirect it on HTTP

my problem is that privoxy doesn't work because if i use SOCKS (i.e. chromium) it works, but if i use HTTP don't

Strike0 · 2011-12-23 10:16:24

You have to chain privoxy before tor for that. Privoxy gets the http request on standard port 8118 and passes it on to tor 9050 via socks.
For that you have to set the forwarding in the privoxy conf file. I cant give you the line now, as i dont have both installed. But thats how it works.
However, give polipo a try (see link above by Lars). When I tried it, polipo kept connections much better than privoxy (in the standard install).
Edit: Unlike polipo, privoxy does other foxy things though, like the javascript parsing which is nice. But in connection with tor I got a lot of timeouts.

Last edited by Strike0 (2011-12-23 10:20:23)

nTia89 · 2011-12-23 11:18:03

i've just followed the archwiki and added

forward-socks5 / localhost:9050 .

and doesn't work.....

i'll try polipo

Lars Stokholm · 2011-12-23 11:22:28

First of all it's not easy to pin point your problem, guessing from "Privoxy doesn't work". What have you tried? How did you know it failed?

Second, you can't just get any application executed from a terminal to use Privoxy/Polipo. That application has to support http or socks proxies. If it supports socks all is good, but if it only supports http proxies you must have it connect to To either though Privoxy or Polipo.

Also there are config files for both Polipo and Privoxy on http://tor.eff.org/ - have you tried those?

Strike0 · 2011-12-23 11:44:52

nTia89 wrote:

i've just followed the archwiki and added
forward-socks5 / localhost:9050 .
and doesn't work.....

If you did that in privoxy, your command line at the top (thread-start) makes no sense for http. Privoxy is the http proxy, not tor.

edit: added http for clarity.

Last edited by Strike0 (2011-12-23 11:47:15)

nTia89 · 2011-12-23 12:07:33

@Strike0: i followed the wiki

now i solved !!! or better with polipo i can forward Tor service through HTTP other SOCKS

yet following our archwiki

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[half-solved] privoxy problem

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