Great!
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Miroslav Stampar <
miroslav.stam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> This moment there was a commit switching TOR support from HTTP proxy
> (e.g.: Polipo, Privoxy,...) to SOCKS proxy (directly toward TOR service).
>
> This was done because of two important things:
> 1) HTTP proxies between TOR and the user tend to do mischievousness deeds,
> like filtering some "suspicious" spam-like page content or stripping pages.
> Anyway, this was doing very bad things toward sqlmap in some cases (to be
> exact, Privoxy is really the worst example)
>
> 2) Maybe the most important "why" is the tendency of some of those HTTP
> proxies to somehow loose the "use Tor's SOCKS proxy at localhost:9050"
> every here and there completely leaving you without the "anonymity" that
> TOR offers. This was causing major headache to me and to be honest, I don't
> want anyone to loose "privacy" because of this kind of Polipo or Privoxy
> behavior. Hence the switch --check-tor which was added for you to be able
> to check for yourself if you were "loosing" the anonymity because of
> similar behavior. With SOCKS proxy utilization sqlmap will now directly
> communicate with the TOR service giving you the best anonymity.
>
> So, I would just ask you all who like to use --tor switch to really test
> it thoroughly and report any bugs you encounter. This way we'll be able to
> stabilize it to the greatest extent.
>
> Kind regards
>
> --
> Miroslav Stampar
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>
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