Re: package-install and Tor

[Philip Kaludercic]

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

>>>>>> Aleksandr Vityazev <avityazev@posteo.org> writes:
>
>     > On 2022-04-27, 00:07 -0400, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
>     >> [[[ 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. ]]]
>     >> 
>     >> > I believe you can use url-proxy-services and direct HTTP
>     >> requests to use > your Tor daemon.
>     >> 
>     >> Could you show me how to do that?  I don't know how.  The
>     >> variable's doc string presumes knowledge I don't have.
>     >> 
>     >> Perhaps we should add concrete documentation of how to use that
>     >> variable to do precisely this.
>
>     > Hi,
>
>     > There 2 common solutions:
>
>     > 1. Using torsocks [1] run Emacs from terminal:
>
>     > #+begin_src shell torsocks emacs; #+end_src
>
>
>     > 2. Using the built-in socks.el library with these settings:
>
>     > #+begin_src elisp (setq socks-server '("tor" "127.0.0.1" 9050 5))
>     > (setq url-gateway-method 'socks) (setq socks-username "user")
>     > (setq socks-password "") #+end_src
>
>     > But this library has issue [2].
>
>     > To use tor via http proxy, you must configure it accordingly,
>     > because socks proxy is used by default.
>
>
>     > [1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git [2]
>
> git clone https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git <RET>
>
> Cloning into 'torsocks'...
> fatal: repository 'https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git/' not found
>
> Looks like torsocks has gone. Anyone know where?

The URL (both website and repository) works for me:

icterid$ git clone https://git.torproject.org/torsocks.git/
Cloning into 'torsocks'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 48, done.        
remote: Counting objects: 100% (48/48), done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (48/48), done.        
remote: Total 3095 (delta 20), reused 0 (delta 0)        
Receiving objects: 100% (3095/3095), 1.14 MiB | 2.76 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2188/2188), done.

> Best wishes,
>
> Colin.