Re: Several questions concerning Polipo

Elliott, have you noticed that Polipo comes with a friendly manual?

> I've been experiencing a couple of problems with the web interface.
> After logging in and attempting to view an index of the cache, I get a
> 403 error. Is tis a known problem, and is there a way around it?

Set disableLocalInterface to false.

> I also noticed several buttons on the Status page (reload forbidden
> list, etc). I'm assuming this button simply reloads the list of
> forbidden URLs so that Polipo doesn't entirely have to be restarted?

Yes.

> Again, concerning the web interface, I've tried to disable it by using
> the "disableLocalInterface = true" peramitor in my config file.
> However, I can still log in. Am I going about disabling it the wrong
> way?

Yes, disableLocalInterface is for the "config?" page.  In order to
disable the local web server, set localDocumentTree="".

> Finally, I'm using the "authCredentials" variable. From what I can
> tell, this means that only a correct combination of username/password
> will allow a user to login to the web interface, is this correct?

No, it mediates access to the proxy.

-- Juliusz

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