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From: AG on 17 May 2010 13:50
On 16/05/10 22:13, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
Juan

This is what I found too. The IW add-on "tor button" configuration
located at

<right mouse click> Preferences/ Proxy Settings

lists 2 options:

(a) Use the recommended proxy settings for my version of Firefox (and a
checkbox is marked next to the only sub-option "Use Polipo" by default) or
(b) Use custom proxy settings

Hand on heart I could not say when this change took place as I haven't
been using IW + tor + privoxy for a while, so this came as quite a
surprise. There was a recent update to tor though, IIRC, so it may well
have been during that.

AG


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