[ ijbswa-Support Requests-1175868 ] Enable/Disable and Use with Tor

Support Requests item #1175868, was opened at 2005-04-03 09:18
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Category: other
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Enable/Disable and Use with Tor

Initial Comment:
Hello,

I searched for 3 or 4 hours yesterday, reading all I could on the Privoxy and 
Tor boards, and I still have a basic question.  It could be I read the answer, 
but the text was over my head, so I didn't recognize that it was the answer.

I have Windows XP.  (I try to avoid Microsoft when I can, but there's a lot to 
learn!).  Privoxy and Tor are running fine. I understand the slower loading 
because of the extra processing going on. My question is:

If I disable Tor, it seems that i have to go into Tools>Internet 
Options>Connections>LAN Settings, and turn off the Proxy Server settings, 
because the Tor Proxy isn't available.  Then, Privoxy works by itself.  

Is that correct?  

Or by putting this line in the Configuration:

forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .

mean I have to use Tor for Privoxy to work?

There are instances that I want my original IP address to log rather than the 
re-routed one through Tor.    But using Privoxy alone, if the site wants to log 
my IP address, what do they get?

Thanks for your help. I'm trying to keep this simple, but need to understand 
these basics before I can understand the bigger issues.  Have a good day... Lisa



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