For more information about Polipo, please see http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/ Tarballs with a proper version number (such as polipo-0.9.7.tar.gz) are (hopefully) stable releases. Tarballs with a version number with 99 in it (such as 0.8.99.4) are head releases. Tarballs with an embedded date are snapshots (stable release candidates, most of the time). The .zip files are experimental Windows binaries. The .asc files are PGP signatures. Please see http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/pgp-validating.html Juliusz