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, 12 Dec 2023 23:58:04 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8734ybkqf4.fsf@disroot.org> <87sf54q2t8.fsf@posteo.net> <83o7fql10t.fsf@gnu.org> <83y1e3ygah.fsf@gnu.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="17565"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, akib@disroot.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 13 05:58:56 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 1rDHKh-0004Od-Ic for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2023 05:58:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rDHJv-0000GI-1l; Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:58:07 -0500 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 1rDHJt-0000G6-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:58:05 -0500 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 1rDHJs-00070m-HQ; Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:58:04 -0500 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=IKHB5vhFBy77QXMDOew8pToF3igOEQAV5G/QkkcItcw=; b=BoOF2nQzupTM prC0l3uRjA1yjKPc1wUGxHUV+pEUmZJ6kAziNraTuemP6D0K8q+3I7cRNCqP5VwcR6SViN/M9prs1 k76P6BSapVdsXpfXu+h3UZpQBQuRaKOHbOgp0qvyhdLvTACG3DfBVBVTucMcikcmRo1/CRrAwI4lk 4Eh+Nv1aGOLZms4hly3bVSppE6TZx9R+19wXkC3FFfOc6HaghdS3xuEZXTAcQ64MGwGnW3yJO2o+P LzJGKaPOonCX/egXwZN8DYEGFJ/n30j1hNeG2dFi4d4zkde+T1e+KQ5XoQ1JBfMKrvIwmY7QruPc5 vdq5pj83EIaXs9AAu4gmYw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rDHJs-0004JB-7z; Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:58:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83y1e3ygah.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 Dec 2023 09:40:54 +0200) 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:313741 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. ]]] > This sounds like a way to make the connection by running a shell > command. Maybe you could arrange for using this facility to do what > you want? I have no idea. I don't know how to make a program talk to anything over the net, either with Tor or without. I think all Emacs features to do something over the internet should give users a way to say "go through Tor". (For most applicaions I think a global variable is the preferable way to specify this.) Can someone who knows how to do that please implement it for Emacs package.el? -- 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)