> Tor isn't the right place to be mangling application protocols if it > can be avoided. That's for protocol-specific tools to do in front of > Tor, such as the HTTP proxy packages you mention---or it can be in the > browser configuration itself (which also hits HTTPS and such, which is > an advantage). Tor is and should be for transport only.
I think the best place to have this feature is in Torbutton. Tomás 2008/7/21 Drake Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoth 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-07-21 16:41:47 -0400: >> If doing this in TOR is not practical or too far off, TOR could at least >> officially recommend the replacement signatures that most users could >> apply using our own devices (e.g. tweaking polipo, using privoxy, >> proximitron, etc.). > > Tor isn't the right place to be mangling application protocols if it > can be avoided. That's for protocol-specific tools to do in front of > Tor, such as the HTTP proxy packages you mention---or it can be in the > browser configuration itself (which also hits HTTPS and such, which is > an advantage). Tor is and should be for transport only. > > Recommending certain configurations is probably reasonable if there's > enough consensus on them. > > ---> Drake Wilson >
