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Re: Vidalia Bundle and RSS in Thunderbird 3.0



On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 23:19 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
> I get
> an error saying that Tor is not an HTTP transport proxy or some such
> (I
> forget the exact message, this happened hours ago). 

This comes from a program using Tor as an HTTP proxy. It presents itself
as a SOCKS proxy. If this was from Thunderbird, you probably just have
it pointing at Tor (by default, localhost:9050) rather than at Privoxy
(localhost:8118) in the HTTP Proxy field in the configuration.

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