Re: Polipo to work as a transparent proxy

Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

>> What is the technical reason that it does not work with Polipo?
 
> There are patches floating around to support interception proxying.
> I haven't reviewed them, and the above is not an endorsement.

Does that mean using a parentProxy does speak a different protocol than 
speaking http to some webserver?
Why do most proxy servers understand when http traffic is just re-routed to 
their proxy port? Just for understanding...
So support for interception proxy must be implemented seperately?

Best regards,
Massimo


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