[Xitami] Fw: Posible Conflit with Tor's Proxy

[Francis Turner]

>From wahat I'm reading of Privoxy it uses port 8118 - see
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/quickstart.html
and
http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/startup.html

No conflict at all that I see

On 11/15/06, nonlin <nonlin at erols.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
>     I asked this this question a few weeks ago but no one ansered back. So
> let me try again.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: nonlin
> To: Xitami Users General Discussion
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:35 AM
> Subject: Posible Conflit with Tor's Proxy
>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
>     I have a grayhat situation:
>
>     I have a Cobut Server that a hacker has found a way to use to send out
> his spam though. I have finger out most of what I need to do to stop him.
> But I believe that it will only make him more persistent to find another way
> to use my server. So I need to take this opportunity to learn how to make my
> server more secure. One of the thing that I have learned is that most
> hackers use  a system to "Tor" to Protect there identity. So I need to
> install a copy of Tor on my Local computer (which also had Xitami) so I can
> learn how it works, what the effects on my Cobut Server are so I can learn
> how to identity its use, and if there is a way I can defeat it.
>
>     HEAR IS MY PROBLEM.
>
>     I was just about to install Tor on my Computer When I noticed that there
> Privoxy 3.0.3 (witch is part of the Tor packeg) Happen to work like a server
> and used Localhost, and the ip 127.0.0.1, the same address my Xitami uses,
> (See instructions for yourself
> http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-web.html.en) . Now my
> question. Will there be a conflict between Xitami and the Provoxy, and if so
> dos anyone know how to move the Provoxy out of the way, Since Xitami if
> Primary on my machine and I have written dozens of script referring to
> Xitami as the Localhost.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Stefan
>
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