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@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@ Dependencies: - You're going to need openssl (0.9.5 or later) and popt (1.6 or later). - If you're on Linux, everything will probably work fine. OS X and BSD - (but see below under troubleshooting) now work too. Let us know if - you get it working elsewhere. + You're going to need Privoxy (www.privoxy.org) installed, and configured + to point at a socks4a proxy -- see below. + + For tor itself, you're going to need openssl (0.9.5 or later) and popt + (1.6 or later). If you're on Linux, everything will probably work + fine. OS X and BSD (but see below under troubleshooting) now work + too. Let us know if you get it working elsewhere. If you got the source from cvs: @@ -31,11 +34,9 @@ If this doesn't work for you / troubleshooting: Once you've got it compiled: - It's a bit hard to figure out what to do with the binaries. If you - want to run a local onion proxy (that is, you're a user, not a node - operator), go into src/config and look at the oprc file. You can run an - onion proxy by "../or/or -f oprc". In another window, run something like - "../httpap/httpap -f httpaprc2 -p 9051". See below for how to use it. + If you want to run a local onion proxy (that is, you're a user, not a + node operator), go into src/config and look at the oprc file. You can + run an onion proxy by "../or/or -f oprc". See below for how to use it. If you want to set up your own test network (that is, act like you're a full set of node operators), go into src/config/ and look at the @@ -48,24 +49,24 @@ Once you've got it compiled: network. I recommend using a screen session (man screen), or some other way to handle many windows at once. I open a window for each onion router, go into the src/config directory, and run something like - "../or/or -f moria2-orrc". In yet another window, I run something like - "../httpap/httpap -f httpaprc -p 9051". + "../or/or -f moria2-orrc". How to use it: - From here, you can point your browser/etc at localhost:9051 and treat - it as a web proxy. As a first test, you might telnet to it and enter - "GET http://seul.org/ HTTP/1.0" (without the quotes), followed by a pair - of carriage returns (one to separate your request from the headers, - and another to indicate that you're providing no headers). For more - convenient command-line use, I recommend making a ~/.wgetrc with - the line - http_proxy=localhost:9051 + Download privoxy (www.privoxy.org). Install it. Add the following + line to your 'config' file: + forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . + Don't forget the . at the end. + + From here, you can point your browser/etc at localhost:8118 and your + traffic will go through Privoxy, then through the onion proxy, to the + onion routing network. + + For more convenient command-line use, I recommend making a ~/.wgetrc + with the line + http_proxy=localhost:8118 Then you can do things like "wget seul.org" and watch as it downloads from the onion routing network. - (You can set your Mozilla/etc to use localhost:9051 as a proxy, and it - will work -- but it will work even better if you tell your Mozilla to - speak only HTTP 1.0 (the http proxy we include doesn't do 1.1 yet.)) For fun, you can wget a very large file (a megabyte or more), and then ^z the wget a little bit in. The onion routers will continue |