Posted by AlmostBob on 07/14/06 00:43

Your proxy is wrong
127.0.0.1:9050 is a port on your own machine
of course you cannot connect

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If at first you dont succeed
try try try again
If at first you do succeed
try not to look surprised

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<me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:4hn331Fc6igU1@individual.net...
> Anyone have any recent experience using TOR or the Vidalia TOR/Privoxy
> package with WinMX? I know--Onion Router networks don't like P2P, and
> usually try to block it. BUT, I'm not so much interested in doing file
> transfers, so I might not invoke their ire.
>
> I've tried using the setting in WinMX for Socks 5 proxy, specified for
> web browsers, of 127.0.0.1:9050, but WinMX just sits there
> "Connecting..." for a long time, with no success.
>
> Comments? Suggestions?
>
> Many thanks.

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