Hello, Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I looked into this. I learned that Firefox (and our IceCat) supports a > SOCKS proxy using UNIX domain sockets [1]. If you've started TOR with a > socks socket at /var/run/tor/socks-sock, you can tell IceCat (or > Firefox) to use it by entering the socket path as your SOCKS proxy. > Specifically, in the IceCat built by Guix, you would do this: > > * Click on the "hamburger menu" in the upper right (the icon looks like > three fat lines stacked on top of one another). > * Go to Preferences > Advanced > Connection > Settings. > * Select "Manual proxy configuration". > * Select SOCKS v5 (because v5, unlike v4, supports sending DNS queries > through the SOCKS proxy). > * Enter "file:///var/run/tor/socks-sock" in the SOCKS Host field (no > quotes required). The UI still makes it seem like you need to enter a > port, but you can put any value in here, and it won't matter, since > UNIX domain sockets don't use ports. > * Scroll to the bottom and make sure "Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5" is > checked. > * Click OK. > > Assuming that TOR is running and the permissions on its SOCKS socket > allow you access, you can browse to https://check.torproject.org/ and it > should tell you that you're connected over TOR. You can also check the > TOR messages sent to /var/log/messages to confirm that stuff is > happening. > > Since using a UNIX domain socket for TOR is probably better than using a > localhost endpoint, we should make it easy to run a configuration like > this via the tor-service. Currently, it's a little awkward to do, since > to set it up, you need to arrange for the directory that contains the > socket to have certain permissions, or else TOR refuses to start. If > nobody beats me to it, I could try my hand at this in a few days' time. That would be great! I wonder if Privoxy can forward over Unix-domain sockets as well. Also note that we’re running Tor in a container, which adds an extra layer of wrapping around it. Ludo’.
