Hi all,

I am looking for some help with getting privoxy running on my n800. I followed the install steps from http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...unning_PRIVOXY and I can't quite figure out how to make it run. I try running the command /usr/sbin/privoxy --no-daemon --user user /etc/privoxy/config and it kicks back saying privoxy not found. If I go to the directory and do a ls it shows that privoxy is there. Can anyone help me get this going?

Thanks

All right I got privoxy working now. The only problem I have now is the site I need it for runs over https and it doesn't seem to be changing the user-agent string. It correctly is changing it for regular http traffic. Anyone have any ideas?

Are you sure that https is also going through Privoxy locally (ie you have both protocols declared as proxied in your connection parameters) ?

About running privoxy: Don't run it like /usr/sbin/privoxy <whatever>, unless you're debugging your configuration file. The right way is /etc/init.d/privoxy start (and stop to stop it), but this is done automatically at boot time as well as at install time. Check with ps -ef|grep privoxy if it's running or not. And netstat -ant should show it listening on port 8118.

I have both http and https running through privoxy, I am about to try starting it like you said and see if it works.

If I try to start privoxy using the start command from the init.d folder it just says
starting filtering proxy server:
then returns to the command prompt but if i try to go to a site it is not running.
the grep command returns:
1829 user 368 R grep privoxy
am I doing something wrong? I edited the privoxy file in the init.d folder to change the owner to user. It runs when I use the long command for debug mode but won't run with the init.d folder command. Any ideas?

If it runs from the command line then it should run from /etc/init.d/privoxy start
But you must be root to run the init.d command. Are you? From the 'grep' command it looks like you're user, not root. (If you reboot the N800 it'll run all the /etc/init.d/ commands automatically.)

Could you please write a brief tutorial on how to get Privoxy working?
Thanks

Hate to bump such an old thread; however I can recreate all of the above without incident... install, have it run, make sure it has access to the right locations, et al. But the problem is that the browser doesn't pick it up at all... and I'm running on the Nokia 770.

Any clues? I've googled and searched this site up and down, and that's the last part where I'm stuck.

Once privoxy is installed via the Application Manager then it's set to automagically run and will be run everytime the tablet is rebooted.
You have to set the proxy settings in the connection manager for each network connection manually to get it to point to 127.0.0.1, port 8118.