maillist <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I really hate it when Tor servers are chained with squid > > and provide modified content without letting me know. > > Some of them even provide default addresses for failed > > DNS requests, instead of delivering a decent error message. > > > > I think most of these Tor server operators have no > > wrong intentions and wouldn't mind using such an option > > if it existed. I would be glad if I could easily exclude > > them. > > I'm running Tor server chained with squid to save valuable bandwidth. It > saves about 2GB per day. No content is modified, only some error > messages by Squid (host not found etc.) which is default behavior. I > dont see anything wrong with that, correct me if I'm wrong. If they are setup correctly I don't see anything wrong with proxies either. But I expect them not to provides outdated or modified content, not to mess with error messages and not to cache if the servers asked them not to. If I type an invalid address into my browser, I want to see the error message of my local running Privoxy, not some message send by a "transparent" proxy. I assume that most default proxy configurations are as broken as most default browser configurations, therefore I'd rather exclude all Tor nodes that are chained with a proxy, unless I know for sure that they really work transparent. > Many ISP:s transparently redirect http traffic to Squid to save their > bandwidth. If I was aware that my Tor server had no clean web connection, I would block port 80. > Many websites provide (sadly) provide different content depending your > toplevel domain. Not always to the Tor user's disadvantage. For example Tor allows me to order RC-1 DVDs from web shops that aren't supposed to ship them to Germany, but don't mind if the IP check is circumvented. > Do you have any examples of content that has been modified by tor server > chained with proxy? I'm intrested. From time to time I get custom headers that were added by squid or some other proxy and aren't set by the original web servers. Some people might not care, I do. Or I mistype a URL and instead of getting a real error message I'm redirected to another site. In fact "redirect" isn't the right word, because there is no 302 or 301 status code, but 200. Sometimes it's a custom error message send with the wrong status code, sometimes it's just another page with no content that I'm interested in (this happend only a few times so far). As I said before I don't think it's the result of bad intentions, so labels like "HTTPProxy", "ModifiedContent", "ModifiedHTTPBodies" and "ModifiedHTTPHeaders" could help. > BTW: my tor server is SpongeBob. Thanks. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature