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Configuring your browser

Telling your user-agent (browser) to use Polipo is an operation that depends on the browser. Many user-agents will transparently use Polipo if the environment variable http_proxy points at it; e.g.

     $ export http_proxy=http://localhost:8123/
     
Netscape Navigator, Mozilla and probably other browsers require that you configure them manually through their Preferences menu.

If your user-agent sports such options, tell it to use persistent connections when speaking to proxies, to speak HTTP/1.1 and to use HTTP/1.1 pipelining.