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Re: [tor-dev] .i2p address support in torsocks



Apparently, I failed to put the person in CC :).

On 02 Nov (13:47:56), David Goulet wrote:
> On 02 Nov (19:25:42), Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 5:58 PM, David Goulet <dgoulet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > For now, it would only be .i2p address support (like .onion). In
> > > torsocks, it's not that difficult to support both addressing.
> > 
> > Does I2P's SOCKS proxy work in a way that's similar to Tor? Other
> > proxies in I2P are protocol-specific â e.g., ports 4444/4445 for
> > HTTP(S) and 6668 for IRC. I am quite sure that protocol-specific local
> > I2P proxies like HTTP and IRC strip sensitive information, so
> > providing the user with an easy access to .i2p services via SOCKS
> > might be the wrong thing to do. The SOCKS information page [1] is
> > rather scarce on details of what actually goes on inside the proxy,
> > however.
> 
> For now, it's simply detecting an .i2p address, opening a connection to
> the i2p daemon and pushing the request there. The person at i2p I talked
> to told me that it's quite straight forward and no special SOCKS5
> mangling would be needed.
> 
> If there is some work to do on the protocol side like you mention, I
> would imagine that the i2p daemon does it or else... well there is a
> problem :).
> 
> Putting someone from i2p in CC:
> 
> Cheers!
> David
> 
> > 
> > [1] http://www.i2p2.de/socks.html
> > 
> > -- 
> > Maxim Kammerer
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