Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Philip Kaludercic]

Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> On Sat 23 Dec 2023 at 22:57, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>>   > >>   >  '(url-proxy-services
>>   > >>   >    '(("no_proxy" . "localhost")
>>   > >>   >      ("http" . "127.0.0.1:8118")
>>   > >>   >      ("https" . "127.0.0.1:8118")))
>>
>> Is there a reason for using the number 9118?
>
> in my case:
> 8118 has privoxy running
> so it looks like this:
> emacs -> 8118 privoxy -> 9050 tor
>
> 8118 is a HTTP proxy
> 9050 is a socks proxy
>
>> Tor's default seems to
>> be 9050; if I specify that number here, would it work
>> without changing /etc/tor/torrc?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> iirc emacs using socks proxy did not work for me

Do you recall what your configuration was.  I gave an example earlier on
in this thread, but noticed that url wouldn't redirect all messages over
the SOCKS proxy.

> emacs using http proxy works fine
> and I can have other rules in privoxy
> which I do not thing is possible to specify directly in emacs
> without changing emacs