Re: package-install and Tor

[Aleksandr Vityazev]

On 2022-04-27, 00:07 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

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>   > I believe you can use url-proxy-services and direct HTTP requests to use
>   > your Tor daemon.
>
> Could you show me how to do that?  I don't know how.
> The variable's doc string presumes knowledge I don't have.
>
> Perhaps we should add concrete documentation of how to use that variable to 
> do precisely this.

Hi,

There 2 common solutions:

1. Using torsocks [1] run Emacs from terminal:

#+begin_src shell
torsocks emacs;
#+end_src

2. Using the built-in socks.el library with these settings:

#+begin_src elisp
(setq socks-server '("tor" "127.0.0.1" 9050 5))
(setq url-gateway-method 'socks)
(setq socks-username "user")
(setq socks-password "")
#+end_src

But this library has issue [2].

To use tor via http proxy, you must configure it accordingly, because
socks proxy is used by default.


[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git
[2] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=%35%33%39%34%31

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksandr Vityazev