I'm trying to share a SocksPort (SocksPort 192.168.0.14:10001) with a mobile device. The mobile device only supports HTTP proxies. It seems polipo used to be supported/promoted[1] by the torproject but based on general search queries, privoxy seems like the better candidate. Can someone weigh the pros/cons of the two and perhaps make a strong argument for one.
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Well, privoxy and polipo are basically even: they both have filtering systems inside them, both are HTTP-to-SOCKS tools. In the last beta of tor you have a HTTPS proxy embedded in tor itself, so I'd rather recommend you to use an embedded one. To do so you should add HTTPTunnelPort directive to your torrc like this:
HTTPTunnelPort 127.0.0.1:8118
answered Nov 9, 2017 at 13:03
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Can you elaborate here? Are you saying tor now has a builtin HTTP proxy feature? Can you link to some documentation and/or edit your answer to offer some setup instructions? Nov 9, 2017 at 15:09
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take a look here gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/plain/ChangeLog and there torproject.org/docs/tor-manual-dev.html.en#HTTPTunnelPort– Alexey Vesnin ♦Nov 9, 2017 at 15:14
Polipo is a caching proxy. It's goal was to reduce traffic (but in modern world with modern browsers it is nearly useless). Polipo is no longer maintained. Sad but true. Privoxy is a filtering non-caching proxy.
