Thus spake Ringo (2600denver@xxxxxxxxx): > Hey all, > > Sorry I've been posting so much to the list lately, I've been working a > lot with Tor. > > One thing I notice is that Torbutton sets no proxy for ftp/gopher. Is > there any particular reason it doesn't tell firefox that privoxy handles > this (which would just kill the connection). It seems to me like this > could break a user's anonymity, but I assume that there's a reason it's > like this. Can somebody explain this? This is because Firefox will use the SOCKS proxy rule for these protocols. If you set then to be handled by privoxy, it just refuses to work. Firefox's SOCKS proxy at least makes an attempt (but then fails due to either a bug in Firefox or Tor). I have not tried a gopher server yet, though. -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
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