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Re: [tor-bugs] #18213 [Tor]: The parameter WarnUnsafeSocks does not work as specified in the documentation, no warning is logged in the log file

#18213: The parameter WarnUnsafeSocks does not work as specified in the
documentation, no warning is logged in the log file
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 Reporter:  propropus                          |          Owner:
     Type:  defect                             |         Status:
 Priority:  High                               |  needs_information
Component:  Tor                                |      Milestone:  Tor:
 Severity:  Major                              |  0.2.8.x-final
 Keywords:  WarnUnsafeSocks, Log 027-backport  |        Version:
Parent ID:                                     |     Resolution:
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Comment (by arma):

 Replying to [comment:9 arma]:
 > The original goal was to warn every single time we had an unsafe
 connection, when SafeSocks is on. That way you don't end up in a situation
 where you do a thing, check your log, see no complaints, and decide that
 the thing was ok to do.

 Ok, let me try that one again. If SafeSocks is on, then Tor will actually
 reject the unsafe connections. So your Tor will mysteriously not be
 working. That's when a user (at least a power user) might go to her logs
 to see what went wrong. We want a reject message for that connection to be
 there in the logs for her.

 Here's the commit message from da3a6e7 when we made that choice:
 {{{
     We also keep warning every time if safesocks is
     specified, because then the user presumably wants to hear about every
     blocked instance.
 }}}

 So it is ok if we want to change our intended behavior, but we should
 first know what the original intended behavior was. :)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18213#comment:12>
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