[Privoxy-users] Switch forward rules on-the-fly?

[Az]

On Sunday 7 October 2018 07:59,
Az <azimuth99 at danwin1210.me> put forth the proposition:
> On Sunday 7 October 2018 06:25,
> Az <azimuth99 at danwin1210.me> put forth the proposition:
> > Hello
> >
> > I use a text browser with Tor quite a lot and often come up against
> > captchas. When this happens I usually go through a different proxy,
> > but then I lose the privoxy protection. It's either that or boot X11
> > and a GUI browser, find the site again and complete the captcha.
> >
> > Is there a way of switching from one proxy to another somehow via my
> > browser that doesn't involve turning off privoxy or adding a rule for
> > each site that this happens with? With my regular sites I do add
> > rules to go direct or via a plain http proxy, but I don't want to do
> > it for every random site that uses cloudflare etc., which seem to be
> > on the increase now.
> >
> > I'm kind of thinking something I could add to the URL to let privoxy
> > know that I need to use a different forward rule. I looked at tags,
> > but I'm not sure I really understand if they could work for what I
> > want.
>
> Well I almost had something working. I added /1234567890 on to the
> end of a URL and set up a simple redirect like s@/1234567890$@@. It
> worked OK for http, but of course not for https.
>
> Then I tried adding a subdomain 'forward-socks5.' to the start, but
> it fails with this error:
>
> Error: pcrs command "s at forward-socks5.@@" changed
> "forward-socks5.duckduckgo.com:443" to "duckduckgo.com:443" (1 hit), but the
> result doesn't look like a valid URL and will be ignored.
>
> Why is this URL seen as an error?
>
> The actual URL I entered in the browser was
>
> https://forward-socks5.duckduckgo.com/lite/

Sorry to keep answering my own questions :)

I found add the https:// seems to work so far.

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Az