> On Jul 12, 2015, at 7:51 AM, Arthur D. Edelstein <arthuredelst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Sherief, > > I gave it a try and to get it to work I had to do the following (Note > steps 2, 3 and 4 are very bad for your privacy!): > 1. Add "torproject.org" as an alias to localhost in /etc/hosts > 2. Deactivate "HTTPS Everywhere" > 3. Create "test.currentTimeOffsetSeconds" integer pref and set to 11491200 > 4. Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings: Turn "Remote DNS" off > > Then I could see my localhost page by entering http://torproject.org > in the URL bar. > > Arthur
Arthur, This actually worked on OS X 10.10.4 using FF 39! Thanks a lot! > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Sherief Alaa <sheriefala...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Arthur D. Edelstein >> <arthuredelst...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Sherief, >>> >>>>>>> Karsten insisted that I have to run a local copy of torproject.org >>>>>>> <http://torproject.org> using a web server while the automated script >>>>>>> runs since we can't estimate or depend on the connection speed. The >>>>>>> major blocker in this is that the browser redirects to >>>>>>> https://torproject.org/ whenever I try to map 127.0.0.1 to >>>>>>> torproject.org <http://torproject.org> (or www.torproject.org >>>>>>> <http://www.torproject.org>) in my /etc/hosts file. >>> >>> So you're trying to get http, but you get https, correct? Sounds like >>> it might be the HSTS Preload list. See >>> https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/11/01/preloading-hsts/ >>> torproject.org is among the domains on Firefox's preload list: >>> >>> https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/manager/ssl/nsSTSPreloadList.inc >>> >>> I think you can turn off HSTS Preloading by creating an integer pref >>> named "test.currentTimeOffsetSeconds", and setting it to 11491200. >>> (Under about:config, right-click and choose "New > Integer".) >>> >>> Arthur >> >> >> Hi Arthur, >> >> I've tested the pref and unfortunately it doesn't work. I still get the >> https version of torproject.org. >> >> -- >> Sherief Alaa >> pgp 0x8623B882 —Sherief _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev