On 2012-02-09, Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently my main IRC bounce went down and I decided to redo things. I'd > like to help save people some time and also to give some advice for > people who want to use irssi or similar clients to connect to the Tor > development channels. > > Basically using Tor and irssi is intolerable - it doesn't work with > privoxy chained to Tor if you want to use SSL/TLS. As far as I can tell, > it's not possible to use any SOCKS proxy safely if at all without major > pain. torsocks doesn't work for reasons that I can't easily debug and so > I took the kernel filter path...
I suspect that the breakage in irssi+torsocks is that irssi uses non-blocking sockets, and the version of torsocks shipped in Debian Squeeze doesn't handle non-blocking sockets correctly. I've heard that a later version of torsocks does work correctly on programs which use non-blocking sockets. Robert Ransom _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
