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+ <p>Note that if you got Tor through one of the bundles, you may
+ have to change the port from 9050 to 9150 (or even another
+ one). For details, please check the documentation on the
+ <a href="https://torproject.org/" target="_top">Tor
+ website</a>.</p>
+
<p>The public <span class="APPLICATION">Tor</span> network
can't be used to reach your local network, if you need to
access local servers you therefore might want to make some
limit the resources used by <span class=
"APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>.</p>
- <p>Another relevant limit to keep in mind is the maximum number
- of file descriptors the operating system is enforcing.
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> needs two file
- descriptors for each client request that isn't answered by
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> itself and one for
- each configuration file. Therefore it's reasonable to limit the
- client connections to a bit less that half the number of file
- descriptors Privoxy is allowed to use.</p>
-
<p>If <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is only used by
a single trusted user, limiting the number of client
connections is probably unnecessary. If there are multiple
<dd>
<p>This directive was added as a work-around for Firefox bug
- 492459: <span class="QUOTE">" Websites are no longer rendered
- if SSL requests for JavaScripts are blocked by a proxy.
- "</span> (<a href=
- "https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492459" target=
+ 492459: <span class="QUOTE">"Websites are no longer rendered if
+ SSL requests for JavaScripts are blocked by a proxy."</span>
+ (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492459"
+ target=
"_top">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492459</a>),
the bug has been fixed for quite some time, but this directive
is also useful to make it harder for websites to detect whether