On 31/10/11 00:06, Erinn Clark wrote: > We want to drop polipo from all of the bundles. Currently it can only be found > in the "vanilla" Vidalia bundles for OSX and Windows, but it's not in the > relay/bridge/exit bundles for Windows or any of the TBBs. Users seem to think > they need an http proxy at times when they do not, but I think there must be > apps that can use an http proxy but not a socks proxy. > > So which apps are these? Anyone know? As Jacob says, wget. Downloading from Youtube using youtube-dl seems to require an HTTP proxy too (BICBW). I point Dropbox at polipo because its SOCKS support appears to be leaky. The purpose is to hinder correlation with other traffic. I don't trust them enough to believe they won't hand over details of which user connected from a particular IP at a given time. I'm sure there are other apps but these are off the top of my head. The question surely isn't whether a proxy is useful, but whether it needs to be bundled? I would have thought that most users capable of deciding that they need one would also be capable of setting one up. If not, perhaps a non-caching HTTP proxy (optionally?) built into the Tor client might be a more robust solution for less savvy users? Julian -- 3072D/D2DE707D Julian Yon (2011 General Use) <pgp.2011@xxxxxx>
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