1 Polipo installation instructions -*-text-*-
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4 1. Building and running polipo
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12 If you want Polipo to put itself into the background, you may replace
15 $ polipo daemonise=true logFile="/var/log/polipo.log"
17 On SVR4 systems (Solaris, HP/UX), you will need to use one of the
18 following (whichever works):
20 $ make PLATFORM_DEFINES=-DSVR4 all
21 $ make PLATFORM_DEFINES=-DSVR4 LDLIBS='-lsocket -lnsl -lresolv' all
23 You can also use Polipo without installing:
26 $ nroff -man polipo.man | more
29 For information about building on Windows, please see the file README.Windows.
31 2. Configuring your user-agent
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34 Once polipo is running, configure your user-agent (web browser) to use
35 the proxy on `http://localhost:8123/'. Depending on the user-agent,
36 this is done either by setting the environment variable http_proxy,
39 $ http_proxy=http://localhost:8123; export http_proxy
41 or by using the browser's ``preferences'' menu.
46 If you want to use an on-disk cache, you will need to create its root
49 $ mkdir /var/cache/polipo/
51 You should then arrange for cron to run the following on a regular
59 If you want to use a configuration file, you should put it in one of
60 the locations `/etc/polipo/config' or `~/.polipo'; you can also use
61 the `-c' flag to put it in a non-standard location. See the file
62 `config.sample' for an example.
64 You might also want to create a forbidden URLs file, which you should
65 put either in one of `/etc/polipo/forbidden' or `~/.polipo-forbidden';
66 you can set the variable `forbiddenFile' in your config file if you
67 want to put it in a non-standard location. See `forbidden.sample' for