Re: Please review new control-spec.txt

[Sebastian Wiesinger <tor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Sebastian Wiesinger <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2005-06-20 10:59]:
> Oh thank god, I was just struggling with the old spec. One question about the
> old protocol: Where does the authentication come from? I didn't find any
> information about that and I thought that connections from localhost would
> always be authenticated.

Ok I found out that you need to send a "" (0 length) auth string to
succeed.

I needed all that because I wrote a check_tor plugin for Nagios.
I posted it on my site if someone is interested in it:

http://www.karotte.org/directories/check_tor

Regards,

Sebastian

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