Re: [tor-dev] Tor Control Protocol: multiple commands in a single line possible?

[Tom van der Woerdt <info@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Patrick,

No, the protocol does not support this. The only command separator is a
newline. Implementing this would likely be hard anyway, as the output of
the double command would be hard to parse.

Tom


Op 10/01/16 om 18:02 schreef Patrick Schleizer:
> TLDR:
> 
> Does Tor's control protocol actually support something like ; ?
> I.e. something like
> signal newnym ; getinfo address
> ?
> How many of there separators are there?
> Can you provide examples please?
> 
> Background:
> 
> At the moment we are implementing support for whitelisting wildcards for
> control-port-filter-proxy-python [0] to support Onionshare and Ricochet.
> [1] [2] [3] [4]
> 
> Does Tor's control protocol actually support something like ; ? If it
> does, then this would complicate the wildcard feature.
> 
> If we whitelisted the wildcard add_onion *, we don't want it to match
> some hypothetical feature add_onion * ; .... I.e. not add_onion * ;
> GETINFO address.
> 
> (If it was the case, then we would have to limit the wildcard (*) from
> example SETCONF HiddenServicePort * to exactly one [numeric] argument
> etc. Or better, correctly parse multi lined commands. Or as stopgap,
> reject these separators since no applications using Tor's control
> protocol are currently using those.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Patrick
> 
> [0] https://github.com/Whonix/control-port-filter-python
> https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Control_Port_Filter_Proxy
> [1] https://phabricator.whonix.org/T446
> [2] https://phabricator.whonix.org/T445
> [3] https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Next#onionshare
> [4] https://phabricator.whonix.org/T448
> 
> (Asked Roger by mail, said it's okay to post this on tor-dev.)
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