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Re: [tor-bugs] #6609 [Tor Client]: Proposal to add tor-connect utility to tor-core distribution

#6609: Proposal to add tor-connect utility to tor-core distribution
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 Reporter:  tri          |          Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Client   |        Version:     
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Comment(by tri):

 And actually there is a very nice feature in OSX that would go hand in
 hand with tor-connect. That feature is called Launch Agent. Most likely
 the same functionality can be achieved with inetd available in most unix
 derivatives.

 In case of software without any proxy capability, Launch Agent can be
 configured to listen a local tcp port and when the incoming connection
 appears, then spawn the configured command so that stdin/stdout is bound
 to the connection socket. I've successfully used that with command like
 "ssh -W my.mail.intra.paranoid.com:143 firewall.paranoid.com" and
 configured Launch Agent to accept incoming connections to some predefined
 port and serving them with a command above. Then just configure a random
 mail software to use the said port as imap endpoint and it works as a
 dream.

 With tor-connect this could be extremely easily applied to relay local
 port to some hidden service endpoint without application knowing anything
 about it.

 Actually in addition to that, the same functionality could (and maybe
 should) be implemented directly to Vidalia. Another tab to settings having
 local relays to hidden services and columns local port, hidden service
 name, hidden service port. This could naturally be implemeted with help of
 tor-connect, but maybe it is simple enough to implement it as an integral
 part of Vidalia. However, it's all different story. Maybe I make another
 ticket about that.

 Regardless of that, I'd import tor-connect to tor itself because it's also
 a handy testing tool.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6609#comment:11>
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