From 5ccb28c335959463efd45f304f2a25ebb46a849c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Dingledine Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:44:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] remove more confusing parts of the README svn:r577 --- README | 27 +++++---------------------- doc/CLIENTS | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index ecadb04008..535a4352ea 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -24,29 +24,12 @@ Do you want to run a tor server? be able to authenticate to the other tor nodes until I've added you to the directory. -Command-line web browsing: +Configuring tsocks: - (First, install and configure Privoxy as described in INSTALL.) - For more convenient command-line use, I recommend making a ~/.wgetrc - with the line - http_proxy=http://localhost:8118 - Then you can do things like "wget seul.org" and watch as it downloads - from the onion routing network. - - For fun, you can wget a very large file (a megabyte or more), and - then ^z the wget a little bit in. The onion routers will continue - talking for a while, queueing around 500k in the kernel-level buffers. - When the kernel buffers are full, and the outbuf for the AP connection - also fills, the internal congestion control will kick in and the exit - connection will stop reading from the webserver. The circuit will - wait until you fg the wget -- and other circuits will work just fine - throughout. Then try ^z'ing the onion routers, and watch how well it - recovers. Then try ^z'ing several of them at once. :) - -How to use it for ssh: - - Download tsocks (tsocks.sourceforge.net) and configure it to talk to - localhost:9050 as a socks4 server. My /etc/tsocks.conf simply has: + If you want to use Tor for protocols that can't use Privoxy, or + with applications that are not socksified, then download tsocks + (tsocks.sourceforge.net) and configure it to talk to localhost:9050 + as a socks4 server. My /etc/tsocks.conf simply has: server_port = 9050 server = 127.0.0.1 (I had to "cd /usr/lib; ln -s /lib/libtsocks.so" to get the tsocks diff --git a/doc/CLIENTS b/doc/CLIENTS index 2cf4f1f517..8e98853615 100644 --- a/doc/CLIENTS +++ b/doc/CLIENTS @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ well for behemoths like Mozilla. http: Mozilla: set your socks4 proxy to be the onion proxy (but see above) privoxy: set your socks4a proxy to be the onion proxy + wget: run privoxy, and then add the line + "http_proxy=http://localhost:8118" to your ~/.wgetrc. ssh: tsocks ssh arma@18.244.0.188 ftp: tsocks wget ftp://18.244.0.188/quux.tar --passive Mozilla: set your socks4 proxy to be the onion proxy