Hey Brice, I think you forgot to type your reply below. :-) Ludo’.
Brice Waegeneire <[email protected]> skribis: > On 2020-05-17 22:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi Brice, >> >> Brice Waegeneire <[email protected]> skribis: >> >>> Today I played a bit with Tor and Guix, trying to fetch substitutes >>> trough >>> the Tor network as blaze_cornbread asked on IRC[0] how to do this. I >>> managed to get it working but in the end I don't think we should >>> encourage >>> people doing it this way, that's why I haven't submitted a patch to >>> the >>> cookbook for it. Currently the only supported way to proxy traffic >>> for >>> 'guix-daemon' is by setting a HTTP proxy[1] the drawback is that DNS >>> query >>> will still be in clear and wont go trough the proxy in contrast to a >>> SOCKS5 >>> proxy where the query will happen on the other side of the proxy. >> >> I don’t think that’s the case: when an HTTP proxy is in use, clients >> make a CONNECT or GET HTTP request to the proxy, which resolves the >> host >> name on their behalf. That’s why you can pass >> ‘--substitute-urls=http://bp7o7ckwlewr4slm.onion’ and it Just Works. >> >> So I think you message could make a great section in the cookbook. :-) >> >> Thanks, >> Ludo’.
