Re: FW: Questions on Polipo capabilities and potential capabilities

> (1) How would you suggest we have polipo automatically shut down after 60 or
> x minutes?  Could support be added to allow having it shutdown automatically
> x minutes after it started up?
>
> (2) In a similar vein, could polipo be made to support the kind of
> "accounting" functionality that exists in Tor?  [...] 
> Have it automatically start up at the same time each day?

Assuming you're on Unix, I agree with David that these are best done
using Cron.  (Check the config variable pidFile for safely killing
Polipo.)

> Have it automatically start up and shut down after x MB/GB of
> traffic has flowed through it each day?

It would indeed be nice to have this, and to have an ability to rate
control Polipo using some leaky-bucket algorithm.  Unfortunately,
that'd be a rather large job, so don't hold your breath.

> (3) Can polipo recognize and "zap" any Javascript scripts?  Alternatively,
> can it be made to call out to an external script like it does with adzapper
> to process/scrub any Javascript scripts?

I believe this is better done at the user agent level.  I use the
QuickJava extension for FireFox, but some people seem to prefer NoScript.

> (4) Can user-agent be set to some config file value, or set by a command
> line argument, rather than flowing through the user's actual user-agent?

Not yet.  I agree it would be a useful option.

Right now, all you can do is disable serving of the User-Agent althegither
by setting censoredHeaders.

> (5) Have you any experience with OpenVPN?  I am trying to get a local
> OpenVPN client configuration to send all internet protocols/traffic through
> to the OpenVPN server process, which then routes http, https and ftp through
> polipo.  No luck at this point...

Sorry, no experience at all -- I strongly favour ssh tunnels
(described in the manual).  If you find out, please let me know so
I can add a chapter to the manual.

> http://www.privacy-ecosystem.com/

Cool.  But before we can trust you, you need to publish a privacy
policy, and disclose fully who is funding you.

                                        Juliusz

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