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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I've written an Windows 7 Visual Basic application that downloads info from a website, that I'd like to use tor with. I've downloaded tor browser, and if I open the browser it establishes a connection to the tor network and my application runs just fine. However, if I instead run tor via tor.exe, my app gives the exception <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>" No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:9150"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>which is the same message I get if I run the app without first starting tor. I confirmed that tor.exe is running as a process in Task Manager. I've tried multiple versions of torrc. My current one is:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal># This file was generated by Tor; if you edit it, comments will not be preserved<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal># The old torrc file was renamed to torrc.orig.1 or similar, and Tor will ignore it<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>AvoidDiskWrites 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Log notice stdout<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>#Log debug file c:/program files/tor/debug.log<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DataDirectory C:\Users\Terry\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DirReqStatistics 0<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>GeoIPFile C:\Users\Terry\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\geoip<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>GeoIPv6File C:\Users\Terry\Desktop\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\geoip6<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SocksPort 9150<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ControlPort 9151<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CookieAuthentication 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>## fteproxy configuration<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ClientTransportPlugin fte exec TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\fteproxy --managed<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ClientTransportPlugin flashproxy exec TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\flashproxy-client --register :0 :9000<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>## meek configuration<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ClientTransportPlugin meek exec TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\terminateprocess-buffer TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\meek-client-torbrowser --exit-on-stdin-eof -- TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\meek-client<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I can't figure out what configuration settings the tor browser is using that are different from what's in the torrc. I've searched the documentation, and requested help from help@rt.torproject.org, who tell me that my problem is outside the scope of the help desk, and suggested I try here.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>