[Privoxy-users] Can Privoxy conditionally forward requests that would otherwise fail?

[Fabian Keil]

David de Caires e Freitas <jddcef at gmail.com> wrote on 2022-08-10 at 20:36:38:

> Is it possible that privoxy could be configured to only forward requests
> to another proxy (e.g. Tor) if it's the case that the connection failed?
> i.e. Can privoxy only deal with requests that fail on the normal internet
> path?
> i.e. Can privoxy forward requests to a proxy as an attempt to get a
> connection going, because the unproxied connection does not allow the
> site?

Unfortunately that's currently not supported.

It's on the TODO list, though:

| 19) enable-forward-fallback. Syntax? Suggested by K.R.
<https://www.privoxy.org/gitweb/?p=privoxy.git;a=blob;f=TODO;hb=HEAD#l53>

Fabian
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