From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making package.el talk over Tor Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:42:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8734ybkqf4.fsf@disroot.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6033"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Akib Azmain Turja Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 18 03:43:35 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qsvax-0001Jr-1s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:43:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qsva0-0001qA-PQ; Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:42:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qsvZy-0001q1-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:42:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qsvZx-0004LO-Un; Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:42:33 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=d/eymMOS2Qt0HfNkV4eJjGD340e6c6KpHZte06/GgGI=; b=m+FBEQbV2pjv vMkWKYHMLV8cy5hWjrUwJ/yA2NCvaZEtUaDh0sXSZs5SwiSetWmQ2+yTJdPVoLlUsbnydhQjc0KFS YXXYyeF+Q7VS5VuoXGkE0dZTq5Pn+9VGC4ounCse9GJBu/A8EUripPt0JgTXi3WTcZ1Q9D/6CxVMB 6EdjZXXkk+fdMzuex/Udt0PPHEXRmOSEd4KdGkqkFaFFsRooau+Y8vB+76PMGG8/2djA2COmi0RIU SxaEpcTuaHShx/gngXbMWo8aLLX7SKzhVplS9TOa8y+yfH3znXvR10+Cf3JV89j+sQCn+aQ8EwhEu w6WiBN0pPezQTkEoyWDCmQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qsvZx-0002D1-IZ; Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:42:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8734ybkqf4.fsf@disroot.org> (message from Akib Azmain Turja on Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:54:55 +0600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311552 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > 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. Better/safer solution than which other solution? Using torsocks was what I had in mind -- the question is where it would be easy to do that. Would it be easy to do in those three functions? If not, then where? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)