Boost your Internet browsing - Install Polipo - LINUX
Publicado: 23 Nov 2017, 10:30
Boost your Internet browsing - Install Polipo - LINUX
Polipo is a Linux proxy, like squid but it is intended in a personal use, I used to use squid as my personal proxy but because I have a PIV HT processor and 1 Gig of RAM, in Laptop that approach was just to heavy for it.
Now with Polipo things will change, well go to the installation.
Installation
There is almost no need to change the configuration file as with the defaults it will work great as a personal firewall.
But if you are configuring it as you home proxy, you can change these lines on the file /etc/polipo/config
be sure to change 192.168.42.0/24 for your own IP address range, in general no further changes are needed.
Firefox configuration
Go to Edit->Preferences-> Select Advanced and then click on setting, then Select "Manual proxy configuration" and enter the IP of the PC where polipo is installed and enter the port which is: 8123
Gnome configuration
Go to Desktop->preferences->Network Proxy And Select "Manual Proxy Configuration" and also here enter the IP of the PC where Polipo installed and the port 8123
As a final step you can configure your apt if you are using Debian or Ubuntu, I always do, that way my Laptop gets its updated really fast as usually my Desktop have already downloaded them.
Apt Configuration to work with proxy
And add this line
be sure to change the IP to the one that corresponds to your Polipo server.
Polipo is a Linux proxy, like squid but it is intended in a personal use, I used to use squid as my personal proxy but because I have a PIV HT processor and 1 Gig of RAM, in Laptop that approach was just to heavy for it.
Now with Polipo things will change, well go to the installation.
Installation
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apt-get install polipoBut if you are configuring it as you home proxy, you can change these lines on the file /etc/polipo/config
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proxyAddress = "0.0.0.0" # IPv4 only
allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.42.0/24
Firefox configuration
Go to Edit->Preferences-> Select Advanced and then click on setting, then Select "Manual proxy configuration" and enter the IP of the PC where polipo is installed and enter the port which is: 8123
Gnome configuration
Go to Desktop->preferences->Network Proxy And Select "Manual Proxy Configuration" and also here enter the IP of the PC where Polipo installed and the port 8123
As a final step you can configure your apt if you are using Debian or Ubuntu, I always do, that way my Laptop gets its updated really fast as usually my Desktop have already downloaded them.
Apt Configuration to work with proxy
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Acquire::http::Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:8123";