https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/blob/9651d668da793c7791f778f4fae0b654099122d9/src/components/ssl-observatory.js#L852
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Seth David Schoen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Warren writes: > > > On 2014-02-28 08:21, [email protected] wrote: > > >On 02/19/2014 at 10:40 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" > > ><[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 02/19/2014 08:41 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > I use Firefox plugin and I detected connections to > > > localhost:9050 when > > > > HTTPS-Everywhere plugin is enabled. When plugin is disabled, > > > this does > > > > not occur. Observatory is disabled. > > > > > > localhost:9050 is a common port for the system tor socks proxy to > run > > > on. Are you sure you didn't also do some sort of tor configuration > or > > > reconfigure your proxy settings around the same time as installing > > > https-everywhere > > > > > > > > >No, I did no proxy configuration. I just installed Firefox with > > >HTTPS Everywhere and when the plugin is enabled my firewall > > >detects connections to 127.0.0.1:9050. > > > > Given that HTTPS Everywhere has some internal Tor support, I wonder > > if it's simply checking to see if a typical Tor install is > > available? > > Yes, this has to do with the Observatory wanting to submit cert > observations via Tor. If the Observatory is enabled with default > settings, it looks for a Tor proxy on localhost:9050. You should > be able to stop this (if it isn't what you want) with the HTTPS > Everywhere SSL Observatory Preferences by disabling all Observatory > reporting. > > Note that if Tor isn't installed, the failed connections to port > 9050 won't harm anything -- depending on your Observatory settings, > they'd just cause HTTPS Everywhere to conclude that you don't have Tor > installed and then not submit any observations to the Observatory. > > You can see the details of the implementation of this functionality in > > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git/blob/HEAD:/src/components/ssl-observatory.js > > -- > Seth Schoen <[email protected]> > Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ > Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join > 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 > _______________________________________________ > HTTPS-Everywhere mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/https-everywhere >
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