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Re: [tor-bugs] #21952 [User Experience]: Increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and aliasing
#21952: Increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and
aliasing
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Reporter: linda | Owner: linda
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone:
Component: User Experience | Version:
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Actual Points:
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Reviewer: | Sponsor:
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Comment (by asn):
Hey Linda. Thanks for thinking about this problem.
FWIW, I definitely find this idea quite compelling and I think it's well
motivated. That said, I feel that Roger raised some very good points in
comment:4. e.g. what happens when a user uses onion+HTTPS which seems like
it's not currently handled by the mockups above.
And then of course there is the question of how are those ''automatic
redirects'' caused?
- Does this proposal apply only to clearnet sites that actually do an
HTTPS 302 redirect to an onion site? This rarely happens right now.
- Or does this proposal assume that there is some out-of-scope mechanism
that does automatic redirects from clearnet to onion sites (like Roger's
(b), or the various ideas from our [https://blog.torproject.org/blog
/cooking-onions-names-your-onions recent blog post]? WRT Roger's (b) idea,
I definitely echo that the Tor Project should not be responsible for
mapping names to onions: I think that's a huge rabbithole of sadness that
should probably be handled by a third-party organization (e.g. EFF) or as
a community project (e.g. we include darkweb-everywhere in TBB, like we do
for https-everywhere).
Anyhow I will not complicate this thread further with more doubts and
edge-cases, as there are various open questions here already.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21952#comment:13>
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