Re: Annoying loop situation

[Bob Williams <security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 21 August 2009 20:53:22 Andrew Lewman wrote:
> On 08/21/2009 10:52 AM, Bob Williams wrote:
> > I have both privoxy and torbutton installed. When I setup Firefox's proxy
> > settings to use http and ssl through 127.0.0.1 port 8118 and SOCKS host
> > 127.0.0.1 port 9050, torbutton enables itself. If I then disable
> > torbutton (I'm only really interested in running a tor relay) the Firefox
> > settings revert to 'No proxy'.
>
> You probably want to disable torbutton and configure your non-tor proxy.
>  Then when you click to enable torbutton, your tor settings are enabled.
>  When you disable torbutton, your privoxy configuration is still intact.

Well, that's the odd thing. I start with torbutton disabled (red message on 
the Firefox status bar). I then go to Firefox > Edit > Preferences > Network > 
Settings and select Manual Proxy Configuration. (I notice that it tells me to 
Disable Torbutton to change these settings, but it's already disabled). I 
select 127.0.0.1 port 8118 for http and ssl, and port 9050 for socks. When I 
click OK, Torbutton becomes enabled :(

At this point, http://config.privoxy.org/ shows me I'm that privoxy is 
enabled, but if I then disable torbutton, I also lose my privoxy settings, and 
it reverts to 'No proxy.'
-- 
Bob