RE: How-To route other protocols through Privoxy (e.g. IRC)

["y0himba" <y0himba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So what will this achieve using it as a proxy for another program like IRC? 

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Subject: Re: How-To route other protocols through Privoxy (e.g. IRC)

Its a SOCKS-->HTTP translator of sorts. In other news, I updated the
"Firefox Performance with Tor" entry to reference the FasterFox plugin, and
removed the reference to the Squid proxy acceleration procedure that we all
deemed a "bad thing" several months ago. 
    In other news, speaking of ETM, There is a mirror plus other documents
at http://anonymity-portal.us. 

~Andrew

Thomas Sjögren wrote: 

	On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:13:10AM -0800, Anothony Georgeo wrote:
	  

		Hi,
		
		I was reading the site "ExitTheMatrix" (
		http://jdoe.freeshell.org/howtos/ExitTheMatrix/ar01s03.html
		) and I found directions to route non-HTTP protocols
		through Privoxy...
		
		Quoted from ExitTheMatrix:
		--------------------------
		If you intend to use Privoxy to access non-web ports
		(such as IRC), you may want to edit "default.action"
		and replace the line containing "limit-connect" with
		"+limit-connect{1-}" to allow privoxy to connect to
		all ports.
		--------------------------
		
		Has anyone tried this?  I thought Privoxy was only an
		HTTP srubber.
		    

	
	See http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#Irssi
for
	instructions on how to use Irssi and Privoxy.
	
	  

		What would the benifit be to routing other protocols
		through Privoxy?  
		    

	
	See
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS
	
	/Thomas