Re: [tor-talk] Downloading files when using Tor.

[blobby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 2016-04-05 17:33, blobby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2016-04-03 12:32, Nicolas Vigier wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Apr 2016, blobby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Just to check: I am using TBB and I download a file (PDF, EXE, 
> > > whatever) and
> > > the box comes up which says "Tor Browser cannot display this file. 
> > > You will
> > > need to open it with another application", presumably if I click "OK" 
> > > then
> > > the download happens via the Tor network.
> > >
> > > In other words: the download cannot happen outside of the Tor 
> > > network.
> >
> > Yes, the download will be done through the Tor network. However the 
> > other
> > application that you use to open the file could do connections without
> > Tor.
>
> Thanks. That's what I thought. Some time ago I looked at what happened
> in Wireshark and it showed heavy traffic while downloading between my
> IP and the exit node IP.
>
> However, the previous commentator before you did seem to think
> something different for some reason.

I meant Wireshark showed traffic between my IP and the Tor node entry IP 
not the exit node IP.
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