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Commit 24dcabea authored by Stefano Zacchiroli's avatar Stefano Zacchiroli Committed by Peter Palfrader
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Debian READMEs minor improvements: suggest socks5


instead of outdated socks4a (for privoxy README)
also: point to polipo configuration file path

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
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......@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Polipo is a http proxy that makes it easer to use Tor with a browser.
In order to make polipo use Tor, add the following to /etc/polipo/config:
socksParentProxy = localhost:9050
socksProxyType = socks5
You should then point your browser at localhost:8123 .
If you are concerned about cached data remaining on your disk, you
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......@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ description of the Debian privoxy package just run "apt-cache show
privoxy". Please refer to the privoxy documentation for more details.
In order to use privoxy over tor, add the following line to your
privoxy configuration file:
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
privoxy configuration file ( /etc/privoxy/config ) :
forward-socks5 / localhost:9050 .
(the dot is important)
Then configure your browser to use privoxy as its HTTP proxy.
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