Re: Tor and Polipo

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I'd like to start browsing the onion web. I set up a Tor node, which was 
> pretty easy. I installed the Tor package, made a few changes to the torrc, 
> forwarded a port, and was up and running. Firefox installed Torbutton by just 
> clicking on a link. The missing part is Polipo. I can download and install it 
> from source, but there is no package in pkgin or pkgsrc. How come Tor is in 
> pkgsrc but not Polipo?

my guess would be because noone has simply done it!

there is squid - although it looks like polipo might be easier to 
configure - unless theres some other feature I'm overlooking?