Re: [or-cvs] Update OpenBSD via tor?

["John Brooks" <aspecialj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tor only works directly as a SOCKS proxy. There are a couple options here - first is the 'torify' program (which uses tricks to force all sockets in a process to be sent through Tor even without application support for SOCKS). That'd be the simplest solution, probably. You could also set up a HTTP proxy to redirect to tor (this is what privoxy usually does - although it'd need to support non-HTTP connections, which i'm not sure it does), or simply use different software that includes SOCKS support :P

I don't think this is relevant in this situation, but always remember that passwords sent in plaintext over tor are visible to the exit node. FTP would fall under that category.

- John

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:30 AM, macintoshzoom <macintoshzoom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

$ export ftp_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:9050"
$ ftp ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Requesting ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README (via http://127.0.0.1:9050)
ftp: Error retrieving file: 501 Tor is not an HTTP Proxy
$


$ export ftp_proxy="http://127.0.0.1:8118/"
$ ftp ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Requesting ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README (via http://127.0.0.1:8118/)
ftp: Error retrieving file: 400 Invalid request received from client
$
as privoxy don't support ftp, only http-https.

Christian Kellermann wrote:

* macintoshzoom <macintoshzoom@xxxxxxxxxxx> [080801 22:16]:

pkg_add, the perl tool that OpenBSD uses for installs and updates, uses
ftp to fecth http and ftp files and sources.

But in OpenBSD this ftp can't be socksified (otherwise using dsocks that
do the job honestly), and so I don't know how to use it via tor.

The ftp command in openbsd honors the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variable.
See ftp(1) for details.

HTH,

Christian