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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: yjQ0ESOiM on November 03, 2011, 08:29 am
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When I configure applications (such as bitcoin and pidgin ) should I configure them to use Tor's controlling port or the listening port?
According to my Vidalia message log, the socks listener is 9050, while the control listener is 9051.
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Control port is so you can control Tor with a GUI like vidalia. Vidalia communicates with Tor over the control port, your applications like firefox or polipo communicate with Tor over the listen port.