Re: Polipo to work as a transparent proxy

> Does that mean using a parentProxy does speak a different protocol than 
> speaking http to some webserver?

Yes.

> Why do most proxy servers understand when http traffic is just re-routed to 
> their proxy port?

Because they recognise web server traffic.  That's not (easily) doable
in Polipo, which also acts as a web server.

-- Juliusz

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