[or-cvs] Give better proxy instructions.

Sun Apr 2 09:43:20 UTC 2006

Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/website/docs/en
In directory moria:/home/arma/work/onion/cvs/website/docs/en

Modified Files:
	tor-doc-osx.wml tor-doc-unix.wml tor-doc-win32.wml 
	tor-switchproxy.wml 
Log Message:
Give better proxy instructions.
We still need to tell people about javascript, etc.


Index: tor-doc-osx.wml
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/docs/en/tor-doc-osx.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -p -d -r1.5 -r1.6

--- tor-doc-osx.wml	29 Mar 2006 03:20:19 -0000	1.5
+++ tor-doc-osx.wml	2 Apr 2006 09:43:18 -0000	1.6
@@ -75,15 +75,15 @@ href="<page docs/tor-switchproxy>">Tor S
 a plugin that makes it easy to switch between using Tor and using a
 direct connection.</p>
 
-<p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser to HTTP proxy
-at localhost port 8118.
-(That's where Privoxy listens.)
-In Mozilla, this is in Mozilla|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.
-You should set both your Web Proxy (HTTP) and your Secure Web Proxy
-(HTTPS or SSL) to localhost port 8118, to hide your SSL traffic too.
-You should consider configuring your "FTP Proxy" too; see <a
-href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">this
-note</a> about Tor and ftp proxies.
+<p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser's proxy
+settings.
+In Firefox, this is in Mozilla|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.
+You should fill in "localhost"
+and "8118" to point the top four protocols to Privoxy, as shown here. (Even
+though Privoxy doesn't support FTP and Gopher, <a
+href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">you
+should set them up anyway</a>.) You should also fill out the socks              proxy entry to point directly to Tor ("localhost", "9050", and socks5)
+to cover protocols besides the first four. Then click "OK".</p>
 </p>
 
 <p>If you want to use Tor with Safari, you need to change your

Index: tor-doc-unix.wml
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/docs/en/tor-doc-unix.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -d -r1.4 -r1.5
--- tor-doc-unix.wml	21 Mar 2006 19:32:49 -0000	1.4
+++ tor-doc-unix.wml	2 Apr 2006 09:43:18 -0000	1.5
@@ -89,15 +89,16 @@ href="<page docs/tor-switchproxy>">Tor S
 a plugin that makes it easy to switch between using Tor and using a
 direct connection.</p>
 
-<p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser to HTTP proxy
-at localhost port 8118.
-(That's where Privoxy listens.)
+<p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser's proxy
+settings.
 In Mozilla, this is in Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.
 In Opera 7.5x it's Tools|Preferences|Network|Proxy servers.
-You should click the "use the same proxy server for all protocols"
-button; but see <a
-href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">this
-note</a> about Tor and ftp proxies.
+You should fill in "localhost"
+and "8118" to point the top four protocols to Privoxy, as shown here. (Even
+though Privoxy doesn't support FTP and Gopher, <a
+href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">you
+should set them up anyway</a>.) You should also fill out the socks              proxy entry to point directly to Tor ("localhost", "9050", and socks5)
+to cover protocols besides the first four. Then click "OK".</p>
 
 <p>Using privoxy is <strong>necessary</strong> because <a
 href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS">browsers

Index: tor-doc-win32.wml
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/docs/en/tor-doc-win32.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -p -d -r1.4 -r1.5
--- tor-doc-win32.wml	21 Mar 2006 19:32:49 -0000	1.4
+++ tor-doc-win32.wml	2 Apr 2006 09:43:18 -0000	1.5
@@ -79,20 +79,20 @@ href="<page docs/tor-switchproxy>">Tor S
 a plugin that makes it easy to switch between using Tor and using a
 direct connection.</p>
 
-<p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser to HTTP proxy
-at localhost port 8118.
-(That's where Privoxy listens.)
-In Mozilla, this is in Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.
+<p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser's proxy
+settings.
+In Mozilla and Firefox, this is in Edit|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.
 In Opera 7.5x it's Tools|Preferences|Network|Proxy servers.
 In IE, it's Tools|Internet Options|Connections|LAN Settings|Advanced.
-You should click the "use the same proxy server for all protocols"
-button; but see <a
-href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">this
-note</a> about Tor and ftp proxies.
-In IE, this looks something like:</p>
+You should fill in "localhost"
+and "8118" to point the top four protocols to Privoxy, as shown here. (Even
+though Privoxy doesn't support FTP and Gopher, <a
+href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">you
+should set them up anyway</a>.) You should also fill out the socks              proxy entry to point directly to Tor ("localhost", "9050", and socks5)
+to cover protocols besides the first four. Then click "OK":</p>
 
-<img alt="Proxy settings in IE"
-src="../img/screenshot-win32-ie-proxies.jpg" />
+<img alt="Proxy settings in Firefox"
+src="../img/screenshot-win32-firefox-proxies.jpg" />
 
 <p>Using Privoxy is <strong>necessary</strong> because <a
 href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#SOCKSAndDNS">browsers

Index: tor-switchproxy.wml
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/docs/en/tor-switchproxy.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -p -d -r1.8 -r1.9
--- tor-switchproxy.wml	2 Apr 2006 09:03:11 -0000	1.8
+++ tor-switchproxy.wml	2 Apr 2006 09:43:18 -0000	1.9
@@ -104,12 +104,12 @@ src="../img/screenshot-switchproxy-proxy
 
 <p>Now it will show you the standard proxy config window for Firefox.
 Give this configuration a proxy label of "tor". Then fill in "localhost"
-and "8118" for all four entries, as shown here. (Even
+and "8118" to point the top four protocols to Privoxy, as shown here. (Even
 though Privoxy doesn't support FTP and Gopher, <a
 href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#FtpProxy">you
-should set them up anyway</a>.) You should also fill out the
-socks proxy entry ("localhost" and "9050" and socks5) to cover protocols
-besides the first four. Then click "OK":</p>
+should set them up anyway</a>.) You should also fill out the socks
+proxy entry to point directly to Tor ("localhost", "9050", and socks5)
+to cover protocols besides the first four. Then click "OK":</p>
 
 <img alt="proxy config"
 src="../img/screenshot-switchproxy-proxyconfig.jpg" />

