[stem/master] Tutorial section for determining the exit you're using
commit a6f0255673a949ca9950007aa07f2c35359e79ca Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@torproject.org> Date: Sat Feb 22 07:42:44 2014 -0800 Tutorial section for determining the exit you're using Neat idea from Arturo for a tutorial section showing users how to determine the exit node they're using at a given time. --- docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst b/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst index 4124a08..8e75e80 100644 --- a/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst +++ b/docs/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.rst @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ To Russia With Love * :ref:`using-socksipy` * :ref:`using-pycurl` * :ref:`reading-twitter` +* :ref:`determine-the-exit-you-re-using` .. _using-socksipy: @@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ Besides SocksiPy, you can also use `PycURL <http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/>`_ to import pycurl def query(url): - """ + """ Uses pycurl to fetch a site using the proxy on the SOCKS_PORT. """ @@ -172,3 +173,74 @@ Now lets do somthing a little more interesting, and read a Twitter feed over Tor .. image:: /_static/twitter_output.png +.. _determine-the-exit-you-re-using: + +Determine The Exit You're Using +--------------------------------- + +Finally, lets say you're using Tor and one day you run into something odd. Maybe a misconfigured relay, or maybe one that's being malicious. How can you figure out what exit you're using? + +Here's a simple script that prints information about the exits used to service the requests going through Tor... + +:: + + import functools + + from stem import StreamStatus + from stem.control import EventType, Controller + + def main(): + print "Tracking requests for tor exits. Press 'enter' to end." + print + + with Controller.from_port() as controller: + controller.authenticate() + + stream_listener = functools.partial(stream_event, controller) + controller.add_event_listener(stream_listener, EventType.STREAM) + + raw_input() # wait for user to press enter + + + def stream_event(controller, event): + if event.status == StreamStatus.SUCCEEDED: + circ = controller.get_circuit(event.circ_id) + + exit_fingerprint = circ.path[-1][0] + exit_relay = controller.get_network_status(exit_fingerprint) + + print "Exit relay for our connection to %s" % (event.target) + print " address: %s:%i" % (exit_relay.address, exit_relay.or_port) + print " fingerprint: %s" % exit_relay.fingerprint + print " nickname: %s" % exit_relay.nickname + print " locale: %s" % controller.get_info("ip-to-country/%s" % exit_relay.address, 'unknown') + print + + + if __name__ == '__main__': + main() + +Now if you make a request over tor... + +:: + + % curl --socks4a 127.0.0.1:9050 google.com + <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> + <TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> + <H1>301 Moved</H1> + The document has moved + <A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>. + </BODY></HTML> + +... this script will tell you about the exit... + +:: + + % python example.py + Tracking requests for tor exits. Press 'enter' to end. + + Exit relay for our connection to 64.15.112.44:80 + address: 31.172.30.2:443 + fingerprint: A59E1E7C7EAEE083D756EE1FF6EC31CA3D8651D7 + nickname: chaoscomputerclub19 + locale: unknown
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