Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>]

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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> I would like to arrange for package.el
> to always connect to ELPA across the Tor network.
> But it is 4600 lines of code and I would rather not have to read it all.
>
> Can someone tell me where to find the code that actually
> communicates with the ELPA repos?  Where is the best place
> to make that change?

Isearching for 'url-' reveals that the following functions use the URL
package to access the HTTP server: 'package--with-work-buffer',
'package--archive-file-exists-p' and'package--with-response-buffer-1'.

But I think a better/safer solution will be to use torsocks.

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