{"id":1318,"date":"2012-08-01T09:06:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T07:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raftaman.net\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:39","slug":"minimal-privoxy-tor-configuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Minimal privoxy tor configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.privoxy.org\/\">Privoxy<\/a> is an extremely versatile and powerful non-caching web proxy. It&#8217;s often used in combination with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29\">Tor<\/a> to anonymously surf the web.<\/p>\n<p>The downside to privoxy&#8217;s versatility is that it can be very difficult and complex to configure. The <a href=\"https:\/\/trac.torproject.org\/projects\/tor\/wiki\/doc\/PrivoxyConfig\">Tor wiki<\/a> however has a nice minimal privoxy configuration example. Assumed Tor listens as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SOCKS_%28protocol%29\">SOCKS-proxy<\/a> on your local host at port 9050 (could be any other host or port, as well), a minimal privoxy configuration file (<code>\/etc\/privoxy\/config<\/code>) could look like this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n# Generally, this file goes in \/etc\/privoxy\/config\r\n#\r\n# Tor listens as a SOCKS4a proxy here:\r\nforward-socks4a \/ 127.0.0.1:9050 .\r\nconfdir \/etc\/privoxy\r\nlogdir \/var\/log\/privoxy\r\n# actionsfile standard  # Internal purpose, recommended\r\nactionsfile default.action   # Main actions file\r\nactionsfile user.action      # User customizations\r\nfilterfile default.filter\r\n\r\n# Don't log interesting things, only startup messages, warnings and errors\r\nlogfile logfile\r\n#jarfile jarfile\r\n#debug   0    # show each GET\/POST\/CONNECT request\r\ndebug   4096 # Startup banner and warnings\r\ndebug   8192 # Errors - *we highly recommended enabling this*\r\n\r\nuser-manual \/usr\/share\/doc\/privoxy\/user-manual\r\nlisten-address  127.0.0.1:8118\r\ntoggle  1\r\nenable-remote-toggle 0\r\nenable-edit-actions 0\r\nenable-remote-http-toggle 0\r\nbuffer-limit 4096\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>To check if Tor is up and running correctly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\">Tor project<\/a> offers a nice little <strong>GUI<\/strong>, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torproject.org\/projects\/vidalia.html.en\"><strong>Vidalia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privoxy is an extremely versatile and powerful non-caching web proxy. It&#8217;s often used in combination with Tor to anonymously surf the web. The downside to privoxy&#8217;s versatility is that it can be very difficult and complex to configure. The Tor wiki however has a nice minimal privoxy configuration example. Assumed Tor listens as SOCKS-proxy on your local host at port&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=1318\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,50],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-proxy","tag-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2665,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/2665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}