Firefox IPv6 Anonymity bypass

Juliusz Chroboczek Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr
Sat Oct 27 10:56:18 UTC 2007


> If you are using Tor (and have Firefox configured to use the HTTP
> proxy), Firefox will not use the proxy for IPv6 traffic.

Nonsense.  At the time at which Firefox decides whether to make
a request through a proxy, it doesn't yet know whether the target
server has an IPv6 address.

What you're seeing is probably some other issue, which it would be
good to clarify.

                                        Juliusz



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