So I've been looking for a long time for something modern to sit between my browser and Tor -- something modern, capable, and efficient (i.e. doesn't fork every connection).
Years ago Yahoo got some proxy software from an acquisition, a few years later they made it open source as Apache Traffic Server ( http://trafficserver.apache.org/), and today its the backbone of Yahoo's infrastructure. They have a number of full time engineers that work on it full time, they use it in production, and they are implementing cutting edge features like IPv6, SPDY, and HTTP/2 support.
SOCKS is was one of the legacy features of Apache Traffic Server. However, it hasn't been maintained. If you build from git right now you'll find SOCKS support completely broken at least four ways (a couple bad asserts, wrong byte order, and an uninitialized field). They took the documentation on the SOCKS feature out a while ago but never got around to removing the code.
Since it was there I spent some time over the weekend and fixed it. There are still some issues around SOCKS still but it works well enough that you can surf though tor with it. If there is interest in it here I'd be happy to put together a how-to for Linux and MacOS to get it built and configured.
I'd also like to encourage people to make some noise - Yahoo does have SOCKS servers internally but they don't test using Traffic Server with them because they don't think anyone uses the feature (and they are right, there is no way the code works for anyone in the present state). But if there was interest then maybe they'd keep the code fresh going forward.
I'm including a copy of the patch with this e-mail just to get it out. You can pull their git repository (https://github.com/apache/trafficserver) and apply it to the master master branch.
i don't see any benefit from running yet another c program on my computer... why not run something like Yawning's or-ctl-filter between your tor and tbb? at least it's written in a safer language and does useful things like filter OR commands:
https://github.com/Yawning/or-ctl-filter
anyone who knows golang could easily write more socks servers and clients; super easy!
also python would be an even better choice from the perspective of language safety and their are a few socks (twisted) client and server libraries you can use.
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:47 PM, CJ Ess zxcvbn4038@gmail.com wrote:
So I've been looking for a long time for something modern to sit between my browser and Tor -- something modern, capable, and efficient (i.e. doesn't fork every connection).
Years ago Yahoo got some proxy software from an acquisition, a few years later they made it open source as Apache Traffic Server (http://trafficserver.apache.org/), and today its the backbone of Yahoo's infrastructure. They have a number of full time engineers that work on it full time, they use it in production, and they are implementing cutting edge features like IPv6, SPDY, and HTTP/2 support.
SOCKS is was one of the legacy features of Apache Traffic Server. However, it hasn't been maintained. If you build from git right now you'll find SOCKS support completely broken at least four ways (a couple bad asserts, wrong byte order, and an uninitialized field). They took the documentation on the SOCKS feature out a while ago but never got around to removing the code.
Since it was there I spent some time over the weekend and fixed it. There are still some issues around SOCKS still but it works well enough that you can surf though tor with it. If there is interest in it here I'd be happy to put together a how-to for Linux and MacOS to get it built and configured.
I'd also like to encourage people to make some noise - Yahoo does have SOCKS servers internally but they don't test using Traffic Server with them because they don't think anyone uses the feature (and they are right, there is no way the code works for anyone in the present state). But if there was interest then maybe they'd keep the code fresh going forward.
I'm including a copy of the patch with this e-mail just to get it out. You can pull their git repository (https://github.com/apache/trafficserver) and apply it to the master master branch.
tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
I think we have differing goals, however your or-ctl-filter is very cool and I think I will need to add it to my stack.
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:20 PM, David Stainton dstainton415@gmail.com wrote:
i don't see any benefit from running yet another c program on my computer... why not run something like Yawning's or-ctl-filter between your tor and tbb? at least it's written in a safer language and does useful things like filter OR commands:
https://github.com/Yawning/or-ctl-filter
anyone who knows golang could easily write more socks servers and clients; super easy!
also python would be an even better choice from the perspective of language safety and their are a few socks (twisted) client and server libraries you can use.
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:47 PM, CJ Ess zxcvbn4038@gmail.com wrote:
So I've been looking for a long time for something modern to sit between
my
browser and Tor -- something modern, capable, and efficient (i.e. doesn't fork every connection).
Years ago Yahoo got some proxy software from an acquisition, a few years later they made it open source as Apache Traffic Server (http://trafficserver.apache.org/), and today its the backbone of
Yahoo's
infrastructure. They have a number of full time engineers that work on it full time, they use it in production, and they are implementing cutting
edge
features like IPv6, SPDY, and HTTP/2 support.
SOCKS is was one of the legacy features of Apache Traffic Server.
However,
it hasn't been maintained. If you build from git right now you'll find
SOCKS
support completely broken at least four ways (a couple bad asserts, wrong byte order, and an uninitialized field). They took the documentation on
the
SOCKS feature out a while ago but never got around to removing the code.
Since it was there I spent some time over the weekend and fixed it. There are still some issues around SOCKS still but it works well enough that
you
can surf though tor with it. If there is interest in it here I'd be
happy to
put together a how-to for Linux and MacOS to get it built and configured.
I'd also like to encourage people to make some noise - Yahoo does have
SOCKS
servers internally but they don't test using Traffic Server with them because they don't think anyone uses the feature (and they are right,
there
is no way the code works for anyone in the present state). But if there
was
interest then maybe they'd keep the code fresh going forward.
I'm including a copy of the patch with this e-mail just to get it out.
You
can pull their git repository (https://github.com/apache/trafficserver)
and
apply it to the master master branch.
tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
On 5 May 2015 at 15:30, CJ Ess zxcvbn4038@gmail.com wrote:
I think we have differing goals, however your or-ctl-filter is very cool and I think I will need to add it to my stack.
Could expand a bit about what function you use ATS for and what the benefits you get out of it are? I'm familiar with ATS, but I'm just not connecting the dots to understand why you're using it to sit between your browser and tor...
-tom
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