RE: Yahoo Mail and Tor

[Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:37:38 -0400 downie - <downgeoff2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Date: Thu=2C 9 Jul 2009 12:11:06 -0400
>> From: andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Yahoo Mail and Tor
>>=20
>> On 07/09/2009 11:25 AM=2C Scott Bennett wrote:
>> >      Does polipo do all the other good things that privoxy does=2C incl=
>uding
>> > ad blocking and clickjack blocking?
>>=20
>> No=2C and this is the point.  Polipo is a simple caching http proxy.
>> Polipo does include the ability to filter traffic by regex=2C but this is
>> disabled in our bundles.=20
>
>Will Polipo be able to filter out .exit notation?
>
     Why would you want it to do that?  The .exit notation has to be passed
along to tor for it to work.  If it were filtered out, then the user would
see a connection failure of some kind.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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