Re: package-install and Tor

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Aleksandr Vityazev <avityazev@posteo.org> writes:

    > On 2022-04-27, 00:07 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
    >> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
    >> ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all
    >> enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow
    >> Snowden's example. ]]]
    >> 
    >> > 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]

git clone https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git <RET>

Cloning into 'torsocks'...
fatal: repository 'https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git/' not found

Looks like torsocks has gone. Anyone know where?

Best wishes,

Colin.