Tor can't reach local HTTP proxy after Polipo

Question

I'm clueless about this. I've installed Tor and Polipo, configuring them both as ArchWiki says.
The message Torbutton gives me is the next:
Tor proxy test: Local HTTP Proxy is unreachable. Is Polipo running properly?
I'm thought that it may be some permission problem. I've /etc/polipo/config belonging to polipo user and polipo group, with 775 permissions. My user is in polipo group. I've tried to with normal root permissions for the file, but it doesn't changes anything.

Answer 1

Do you have polipo set up to properly forward to tor?
Something like:
# Uncomment this if you want to use a parent SOCKS proxy:
socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050"
socksProxyType = socks5
Then make sure polipo is set to use port 8118 (I believe polipo by default uses port 8123 while I believe torbutton assumes 8118 by default)
something like:
proxyAddress = "127.0.0.1"
proxyPort = 8118
If both polipo and tor as well as the machine making the request are nto all on the same machine you also need to be aware of possible access restriction issues with both polipo and also I believe tor itself.
# If you do that, you'll want to restrict the set of hosts allowed to
# connect:
# allowedClients = "127.0.0.1, 134.157.168.57"
# allowedClients = "127.0.0.1, 134.157.168.0/24"
allowedClients = 127.0.0.1
allowedPorts = 1-65535
Last edited by davidm (2010-03-10 15:16:03)