Re: [tor-talk] Trouble with signal newnym

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:27:48AM -0600, Landon Campbell wrote:
> I'm new to Tor, and I'm working on developing a crawler that uses Tor
>via Polipo/C# HttpWebRequest. So far, making an HTTP request via Polipo
>through Tor is working like a charm. However, I would like to change
>my route/exit node more often than every 10 minutes. Every single bit
>of advice I can find about this, including the Tor documentation, says
>that all I have to do is Telnet into the Tor control port and issue the
>"signal newnym" command, and I'll move to a new circuit. However, it's
>simply not working.

Newnym tells Tor that new application requests should go to a new circuit.

But Polipo generally keeps its TCP connection to the webserver open,
for pipelining.

Thus from Tor's perspective there may not be a new application request,
since from Polipo's perspective, the old one (on the old circuit) is
still working fine.

I believe the simplest fix might be "don't use Polipo then".

--Roger

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