Re: Use a specific curcuit when establishing a SOCKS connection

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 08:22:52PM +0100, horscht hamster wrote:
> when i open a curcuit in the tor controls using
> EXTENDCIRCUIT 0 one,two,three
> i get the id of the curcuit as a response:
> 250 EXTENDED 13
> 
> now the problem is that there are 5 other open curcuits and tor just
> randomly uses one of those when i connect using the socks protocol.
> but the thing is that i want to use this particular curcuit with id 13 for a
> specific connection.
> it would be convenient if you could specify the curcuits you
> want to use by modifying the socks5 authentication line, which is in
> my case:
> 0x05 0x01 0x00 (and add an id=13 here)
> 
> is this already possible, if not is there any other way to specify the
> curcuit i want to use for this particular connection?

setconf __LeaveStreamsUnattached to 1 (you can read about it in section
5.4 of control-spec.txt), and then use "attachstream" (section 3.13) to
assign each stream.

If you don't want to handle attaching a given stream, just send an
attachstream with "0" as the circid and Tor will handle that one.

You might also like the TorCtl library, e.g
https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torctl/trunk/python/README

--Roger