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mostly behave like a normal, content-neutral proxy with both ad
blocking and content filtering disabled. See <tt class=
"LITERAL">enable-remote-toggle</tt> below.</p>
-
- <p>The windows version will only display the toggle icon in the
- system tray if this option is present.</p>
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<h4 class="SECT3"><a name="SOCKS" id="SOCKS">7.5.2. forward-socks4,
- forward-socks4a and forward-socks5</a></h4><a name="FORWARD-SOCKS4"
- id="FORWARD-SOCKS4"></a><a name="FORWARD-SOCKS4A" id=
- "FORWARD-SOCKS4A"></a>
+ forward-socks4a, forward-socks5 and forward-socks5t</a></h4><a name=
+ "FORWARD-SOCKS4" id="FORWARD-SOCKS4"></a><a name="FORWARD-SOCKS4A"
+ id="FORWARD-SOCKS4A"></a>
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<dl>
<p>With <tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5</tt> the DNS
resolution will happen on the remote server as well.</p>
+ <p><tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5t</tt> works like vanilla
+ <tt class="LITERAL">forward-socks5</tt> but lets <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> additionally use Tor-specific
+ SOCKS extensions. Currently the only supported SOCKS extension
+ is optimistic data which can reduce the latency for the first
+ request made on a newly created connection.</p>
+
<p><tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>socks_proxy</i></tt> and
<tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>http_parent</i></tt> can be a
numerical IPv6 address (if <a href=
tolerate pipelining. Whether or not that improves performance
mainly depends on the client configuration.</p>
- <p>This options is new and should be considered
- experimental.</p>
+ <p>If you are seeing problems with pages not properly loading,
+ disabling this option could work around the problem.</p>
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<dt>Examples:</dt>
<dt>Default value:</dt>
<dd>
- <p>None</p>
+ <p>128</p>
</dd>
<dt>Effect if unset:</dt>
<p>Obviously using this option only makes sense if you choose a
limit below the one enforced by the operating system.</p>
+
+ <p>One most POSIX-compliant systems <span class=
+ "APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> can't properly deal with more than
+ FD_SETSIZE file descriptors at the same time and has to reject
+ connections if the limit is reached. This will likely change in
+ a future version, but currently this limit can't be increased
+ without recompiling <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span>
+ with a different FD_SETSIZE limit.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Examples:</dt>
"LOG-MESSAGES"></a>
<p>If <span class="QUOTE">"log-messages"</span> is set to 1,
- <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> copy log messages to the
+ <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> copies log messages to the
console window. The log detail depends on the <a href=
"config.html#DEBUG">debug</a> directive.</p>