Re: [privoxy-users] FireFox / Tor / Safari

[Fabian K. <fk...@fa...>]

John Thompson <Joh...@ne...> wrote:

> Jason Edwards wrote:

> > I am a new Privoxy user so please forgive me for some of these
> > questions.
> >=20
> > I use Privoxy with Tor and Firefox in OS X. I use Safari for regular=20
> > browsing (without Tor or Privoxy).
> >=20
> > I would like to be able to:
> > - Continue using Privoxy with Tor and Firefox
> > - Start to use Privoxy with Safari WITHOUT Tor
> >=20
> > Is this possible? How would I set this up? If I change the Privoxy=20
> > config to work with Safari without Tor, will that mess up/disable=20
> > Privoxy use with Firefox and Tor? (I don't want that to happen)
>=20
> Assuming the proxies and clients are all running on the same machine,
> you could configure Firefox to connect to tor's listening port, with tor
> forwarding to privoxy, and configure Safari to connect directly to
> privoxy's listening port without going through tor.

This will not work as expected, the order of Privoxy and Tor is important.

If Tor is forwarding to Privoxy, Privoxy will only see encrypted
data and can't do anything useful. Of course you could still use
Privoxy to prevent Tor from connecting to some of the onion routers
that build the first onion layer, but it would cause connection failures
and should be done through Tor's configuration file instead.

Additionally Firefox' socks supports is said to be blocking.
If haven't verified it, but if it's the case, it will be really
slow when used with Tor.

There is currently no way to have Privoxy use different settings
based on the client's User-Agent, so the only reliable solution is
to use two different Privoxy configurations and either run two Privoxy
processes or only use one configuration at the time.

Fabian