From 24dcabea497ec7d9bafe81839ef4ce48800885bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:15:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Debian READMEs minor improvements: suggest socks5
instead of outdated socks4a (for privoxy README)
also: point to polipo configuration file path
Signed-off-by: Peter Palfrader <peter@palfrader.org>
---
debian/README.polipo | 1 +
debian/README.privoxy | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/README.polipo b/debian/README.polipo
index cc00fbfe48..4e0a6fc751 100644
--- a/debian/README.polipo
+++ b/debian/README.polipo
@@ -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
diff --git a/debian/README.privoxy b/debian/README.privoxy
index 0f4b4f9d95..c4c75a2f1e 100644
--- a/debian/README.privoxy
+++ b/debian/README.privoxy
@@ -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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