On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:26:15PM -0800, Christopher Davis wrote: > I'm working on a patch to enable SOCKS 4 and 5 support for > Tor's OR and directory connections. I got SOCKS working for OR > connections already, but the directory behavior is a bit more > challenging to SOCKSify, because it queues the request immediately > on the connection's outbuf with the directory_send_command() call > right after connecting in directory_initiate_command_rend(). To > get SOCKS to work, the parameters (resource, payload, etc) would > need to be saved to the connection structure so > directory_send_command() can be called after the proxy handshake > finishes. Would that be acceptable?
Since Tor has moved towards doing the directory fetches over an OR connection (it even does it by default in Tor 0.2.0.x and later), I would suggest that you don't actually need to support socks proxies for directory fetches. --Roger
