[Sussex] privoxy

[Andrew Guard]

Angelo Servini wrote:
> Hi Andrew.
> 
> I have gone to the "TOR" site and found that "privoxy" can be used in conjunction with it.  I now need to configure my SAR130 router to open ports 443, and 9001-9033. Otherwise it doesnt work. It looks good though, for my purposes (as it is still experimental) since I dont run mission critical stuff, but I can still surf reasonably anonymosly.

It is a good toy, one fun things you can do with it is get change 
content.  IE say you went to NTL web site and configer privoxy to change 
the world ntl to say nthell.  You would understand this if you are 
customer of there's.

> 
> <quote: Andrew Said>
> 
>>Well I have been using Privoxy before it name change years 
>>ago.  I was 
>>using it on the Amiga/Windows/Linux.
>>First Prioxy isn't a proxy server but it is.  Prioxy is set 
>>rules a bit 
>>like anti-spam software which looks at content upon that it 
>>decides if 
>>safe or not.  So say you have add on web page as it size is x 
>>by y and 
>>that is listed in there it will block that add from being downloaded.
>>
>>Now one important issue about Prioxy it can only be used as 
>>proxy server 
>>in browser for http requests, it can not be use for proxy server in 
>>http, ftp, gopher, socks. If you do then you will not able to access 
>>these services.
>>
> 
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