Border protection for Fedora

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Sun Dec 12 22:51:31 UTC 2010


On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:10:50 -0500
Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:

> On 12/12/2010 03:01 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You only need a proxy if there is something you would like to do
> > with http or the like, for example caching for better speed, or
> > filtering out ads and such. See squid and privoxy for those. 
> 
>   Aside - I believe privoxy has been largely superceded by polipo
> which has several advantages over privoxy (including user config
> support).
> 
>   Polipo is packaged for fedora too .. :-)

Odd. I don't see anything off hand in it's docs about replacing the
filtering functions of privoxy. It does talk about chaining it with
privoxy, which seems to imply to me that it doesn't replace it. 

Happy for pointers otherwise. 

kevin
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