On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 02:01:40AM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote:
In the distant past, we had a ".noconnect" special extension in Tor: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/address-spec.txt#n58 and the idea was that you would connect to Tor's control port, induce a request for foo.noconnect, and see if you saw stream events for it. If you did, things were configured correctly. But we disabled .noconnect because we worried it could be used to notice Tor users in some way. And it sounds like that solution wouldn't work for you anyway, because if things *aren't* configured correctly, then your browser would generate a funny-looking request that everybody knows is a Globaleaks Tor check?
If you can connect to the control port, can't you just get the browser to load "google.com", and see if the corresponding stream gets created?