gwget and tor?

[emigrant]

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 09:40 -0400, Aplin, Justin M wrote:
> On 5/26/2010 7:39 AM, emigrant wrote:
> > is there a way to use gwget with tor?
> > most of the times i download a direct link in tor enabled firefox it
> > stops in the middle despite the internet connection is good.
> >    
> I don't know about gwget, but plain wget supports http proxies, which 
> you can point at Polipo. If you're only going to need to do this every 
> once in a while, I'd pop open a terminal and do the following:
> HTTP_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118 && HTTPS_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118 && 
> FTP_PROXY=127.0.0.1:8118
> export HTTP_PROXY && export HTTPS_PROXY && export FTP_PROXY
> wget your://url.to/download.here
> 
> If that doesn't work for you, open your Polipo configuration file and 
> see what port it's set up to run on, and change the bit after the colon 
> in the environmental variables. Wget will pick up on the environmental 
> variables and should route your download through Tor. These settings 
> will only last until you either close the shell, or until you log out (I 
> forget which and can't make it to my linux box to check), so if you'll 
> be doing this a lot you can add the following lines to your .wgetrc file 
> to have them executed automatically:
> 
> proxy = on
> HTTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118
> HTTPS_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118
> FTP_PROXY = 127.0.0.1:8118
> 
> To resume an interrupted download, just add the -c option, like so:
> 
> wget -c your://url.to/download.here
> 
> > thanks.
> >
> >    
> 
> Anytime =)
> 
> ~japlin
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thank you very much for this,
i will try this way next time i download.
and thanks to Scott Bennett also.

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