Setting up Tor with Privoxy and Proxomitron

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Hi notageek

First off, when you start up tor, verify you get a message similar to the following:

Quote:Jan 01 08:38:47.593 [notice] Tor v0.1.0.15. This is experimental software. Do no
t rely on it for strong anonymity.
Jan 01 08:38:47.656 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method win3
2
Jan 01 08:38:54.359 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like i
t's working.

Next, use the Privoxy config files that you know works with proxo, then add the following to the end of Section 5.2 of Privoxy's config.txt :

Quote:# to use Privoxy with the tor, the following entry is required
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

Also, since your using Proxo to do web filtering, you can start Privoxy with filtering disabled if you like by changing the "toggle" value at the end of Section 4.2 in Privoxy's config.txt to look like this:

Quote:# using proxo, start privoxy with filtering disabled
toggle 0

I have verified that http & https works ok and there are no DNS leaks with Privoxy configured as mentioned.

If Tor is working, and you have set proxo to use the remote proxy that Privoxy is listening on, this should be all you need to get started.


HTH
Mike