On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 08:14:03PM +0200, onionsmas...@tutanota.com wrote: > > So I was browsing some old clearnet forum posts using Tails and Tor browser. > Some posts had embedded images from a Tor hidden site via onion.casa gateway. > That gateway site seems to be inactive nowadays. > I refreshed the page a few times, and sometimes Tor browser was attempting to > load something from the same site but using tor2web.xyz gateway instead. > I checked page source and didn't spot any references to tor2web.xyz. > So what happened?
Without seeing the actual website, we can only guess what caused this. Did you have javascript enabled in Tor Browser? Maybe there was a javascript file that tries alternative tor2web gateways? >Can exit nodes redirect requests like this? It depends. In theory, yes, it could in this case. This would qualify the exit node as a bad relay, but in practice it could detect onion.casa is a dead website and it sent a HTTP redirect for tor2web.xyz. > I mean, if original request was to site.onion.casa/foo but it was redirected > to site.tor2web.xyz/foo? > This was rather strange and I don't really understand what happened. I think > it's very questionable if exit nodes do redirects like this. Is it even > possible? What have I not noticed? It seems more likely this was a feature provided by the forum, but if the exit relay injected a redirect from onion.casa to tor2web.xyz then it is a good idea to find which relay this is and investigate it. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
