Need help getting started

[Adrian Brown]

I downloaded the latest stable version a couple of days ago, and there were no errors in the log 
when I checked that. Your suggestion that it could be the firewall getting in the way certainly 
makes sense - What's the best way to test and fix that?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Lewman" <andrew at torproject.org>
To: <or-talk at freehaven.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Need help getting started


>
> On 12/20/2009 02:55 AM, bao song wrote:
>> I'll assume you downloaded the easy installation version for Windows,
>> and that you may have downloaded a broken version. Some downloads
>> provided Polipo but then tried to connect through Privoxy.
>
> This was a display issue with Torbutton.  In both Torbutton 1.2.2 and
> Torbutton 1.2.3, it configures firefox to connect on localhost:8118.
>
> Torbutton 1.2.2 had text that said "use privoxy", torbutton 1.2.3 has
> text that says "use polipo".  In both cases, the result was the same.
> Firefox was configured to use whichever http proxy was shipped on port 8118.
>
> The tor browser bundles (aka the easy bundle) have always included polipo.
>
> There was a bug with bundles that included vidalia 0.2.3 through 0.2.4
> where polipo wouldn't start with the correct configuration file.  This
> is fixed in vidalia 0.2.6 on osx and linux.  It's fixed in vidalia 0.2.5
> on windows.
>
> Rather than talking about some esoteric versions, use the latest
> available bundle is generally the easiest advice.
>
> As for the original poster, you never said what you downloaded and
> installed, and if there are any errors in the Message Log.  With all
> your anti-bad stuff software installed, most likely localhost is
> firewalled off from everything. This breaks tor.
>
> -- 
> Andrew Lewman
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