Setting up Tor with Privoxy and Proxomitron

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Hi notageek

Quote:Testing 127.0.0.1:8118
Waiting for remote proxy's reply
Proxy test Failed!
>HTTP/1.0 404 No such domain
Ending proxy test

I see the same thing when trying to "Test" via proxo. Apparently, tor doesn't like it and won't respond.

Here's tor complaining about the Proxy test:

Quote:Jan 01 14:28:35.546 [notice] No Tor server exists that allows exit to [scrubbed]
:7734. Rejecting.

Yet tor still works when I use it.

It is not uncommon for remote proxys to not respond, yet still work ok. For the most part, I never bother with testing remote proxies, I just try it & see if it works.

Surfing via tor is painfully slow. I have a cable connection that usually screams, but when using tor, it slows to a crawl. Cnn which usually loads for me in a second or two, took over a minute via tor. This is the major drawback of using remote proxies.

I suggest when connecting via tor to monitor whats happening in proxo's log window. You may see that the replies come back so slowly that it appears that the site is not loading at all.

From what I can tell, if tor has a connection problem, you'll see a message in tor's window.

HTH
Mike