Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>   > (custom-set-variables
>   >  '(url-cookie-confirmation nil)
>   >  '(url-cookie-untrusted-urls '(".*"))
>   >  '(url-gateway-method 'native)
>   >  '(url-privacy-level 'paranoid)
>   >  '(url-proxy-services
>   >    '(("no_proxy" . "localhost")
>   >      ("http" . "127.0.0.1:8118")
>   >      ("https" . "127.0.0.1:8118")))

For this to work, one has to add

   HTTPTunnelPort localhost:8118

and it only appears to work for https:// URLs, not unencrypted http://.

>   >  '(url-queue-timeout 4)
>
> I will give that a try.  Thanks.
>
>   > why is this not a sufficient solution?
>
> I am the wrong person to ask.  I don't have the background knowledge
> to tell whether it solves the problem.

You can use https://check.torproject.org/ to check, if the request goes
through the Tor proxy, the page will say "Congratulations. This browser
is configured to use Tor."