[Privoxy-users] Using a proxy before privoxy

[Az]

On Monday 4 February 2019 13:55,
Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> put forth the proposition:
> Az <azimuth99 at danwin1210.me> wrote:
>
> > I've just set up 3proxy as a socks5 proxy which connects to privoxy
> > as parent.  It's all working except the config pages.  Something
> > like:
> >
> > (privoxy and 3proxy running on 192.168.0.5)
> >
> > 3proxy.cfg:
> >
> > parent 1000 http 192.168.0.5 8118
> > socks -4 -p20000
> >
> > However since doing this the config URL breaks and it says privoxy
> > isn't being used.
> >
> > I've tried putting privoxy.org and config.privoxy.org in /etc/hosts
> > pointing at the machine but it didn't work.
> >
> > How can I get this to work?
>
> Try enabling the debug settings as described at:
> https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html
> to see if the requests actually make it to Privoxy.
>
> Fabian

I didn't see config.privoxy.org in the log at all, although
www.privoxy.org was working and logged.  I was getting a 'connection
was reset' on any 'config.' URL.

Solved it anyway:

I'm using Postern to redirect all traffic to the machine running
Privoxy and it's been working fine so far (apart from this.)  I just
tried adding a proxy setting to the wifi setup and that seems to have
fixed it.  I guess it's a problem with transparent proxying, which I
normally try to avoid.

Thanks

--
Az