Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Emanuel Berg]

Akib Azmain Turja wrote:

>> 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.

Holy socks! But won't there be a connection speed disadvantage
from doing this?

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