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splondike / polipoid

Android wrapper for the polipo proxy
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Cannot connect to Polipoid from WLAN #6

Closed niutech closed 10 years ago

niutech commented 10 years ago

I have installed and started Polipoid proxy on Android 4.1 phone. Now I want to use this proxy from WLAN. I set the proxy on other devices to 192.168.1.2:8123 (phone IP:port), but they cannot connect because the port is closed. How to do it?

splondike commented 10 years ago

Hi, by default Polipo only allows connection from local host. You need to change some settings to make this work, see here: http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch%20/software/polipo/polipo.html#Client-connections .

To do this you'll need either root access to your phone, or the latest version on the master branch. Are you able to build and test this? That would be useful as then I can release it to f-droid.

niutech commented 10 years ago

I added a proxyAddress in #8 as well as WifiLock and WakeLock in #7 and now I can connect to Polipoid from WiFi! Now I can use a spare Android phone to accelerate my slow Internet on any device at home. That's great!