Yahoo Mail and Tor

James Brown jbrownfirst at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 06:51:03 UTC 2009


Fabian Keil пишет:
> bao song <michaelwprx at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>   
>> Two months??? I have had trouble with Yahoo Mail via Privoxy for more
>> than four years.
>>     
>
> I'm sorry to hear that.
>
> Are you by any chance using the Vidalia bundle which unfortunately
> contains a Privoxy version that is several years out of date?
>
>   
>> At first, I was given some config file modifications
>> for  Privoxy so it would allow me to use Yahoo Mail, but this disabled a
>> lot of the stuff Privoxy did, and I wanted that stuff for other sites.
>> Also, I was still unable to log out of Yahoo Mail even with the
>> modifications someone had posted. So I now disable all of Privoxy when
>> signing out of Yahoo Mail. Here, behind a Middle Eastern firewall, the
>> Yahoo Mail signout is often blocked by the firewall, as well as by
>> Privoxy for reasons that escape me. Sometimes, I can sign out if I don't
>> use Tor at all. Other times, I can only sign out if I use Tor without
>> Privoxy. Yahoo mail is accessible through Privoxy, but all style sheets
>> are disabled, so the display is rather annoying. Annoying or not, I use
>> Privoxy until I need to sign out, disable Privoxy, sign out of Yahoo
>> Mail, then turn Privoxy back on in default mode. I'm still not sure what
>> it is about Yahoo Signout that Privoxy (and the local firewall) see the
>> need to block.
>>     
>
> That sounds like a lot more work than simply upgrading
> your Privoxy version or even back porting the action file
> changes manually.
>
> As far as I know, the Yahoo-related problems have been fixed
> quite some time ago and if you still notice any problems with
> Privoxy 3.0.12 or later, feel free to report them so we can
> fix them.
>
> Fabian
>   

I have installed the latest stable verison for Windows but nothing changed.
Now I use Vidalia 0.1.14, Tor 0.2.0.35, Privoxy 3.0.6
Do I need use testing or unstable version?
P.S. Under Linux Debian I have such problem too, but some little than
under Windows.  There I use standart packages for Debian Lenny AMD64.



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