Program message with help or unwanted remote service access? I was using the tor service and multitor from from github at the same time with the command “multitor –init 2 –user debian-tor –socks-port 9000 –control-port 9900 –proxy privoxy
“, and after checking the /etc/tor folder I found the ” –proxy” file with this message. Any clarification, help with understanding what happening, becouse for my opinion it’s weird getting message in system folder about what’s going on with my service or that mulitor program? Maybe im just missing the point. But would like know your ideas, clarifications.
└─$ cat ' --proxy'
<html>
<head>
<title>This is a SOCKS Proxy, Not An HTTP Proxy</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a SOCKs proxy, not an HTTP proxy.</h1>
<p>
It appears you have configured your web browser to use this Tor port as
an HTTP proxy.
</p><p>
This is not correct: This port is configured as a SOCKS proxy, not
an HTTP proxy. If you need an HTTP proxy tunnel, use the HTTPTunnelPort
configuration option in place of, or in addition to, SOCKSPort.
Please configure your client accordingly.
</p>
<p>
See <a href="https://www.torproject.org/documentation.html">https://www.torproject.org/documentation.html</a> for more information.
</p>
</body>
</html>
Some clarifications about whats going on.