Hi Adrelanos, I think adding http proxy support to tor sounds more interesting. But there seems to be a looong discussion on ticket #6060 whether to add this functionality inside tor or not. What is the final roadmap, if any? Debamitro On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:32 PM, adrelanos <adrelanos@riseup.net> wrote:

Debamitro Chakraborti:

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Hi,

I am a C/C++ programmer wanting to dabble in the world of open source. I got to know of Tor and I felt the product is an important one for humanity. I have downloaded, built and run tor and also torsocks. Are there any coding tasks needed in tor at present? Do let me know.

Regards, Debamitro Chakraborti

Hi,

perhaps solving the ticket "add http proxy support to Tor"? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6060

Or working on torsocks maybe?

At the moment the torsocks input methods are a bit weird. The and usewithtor, torify and uwt wrappers should be be redundant.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/torsocks https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-July/024925.html

The uwt interface could be extended to a point where all settings which can be defined in the config file can also be defined by command line. And if that's too much, an option to supply the configuration file by command line would help as well.

Interface could look like this:

Usage: torsocks [-h] [-v] -t server_type -i ip -p port <command> [<options>...] Example: torsocks -t 5 -i 127.0.0.1 -p 9050 wget https://check.torproject.org sudo torsocks -t 5 -i 192.168.0.10 -p 9104 /usr/bin/apt-get --yes dist-upgrade

The list of other torsocks issues also looks reasonable small.

https://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/list?can=2&q=&colspec=ID+Type+Stat...

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/torsocks#Tickets

And if I am not mistaken, Vidalia is currently lacking development.

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Debamitro Chakraborti <debamitro@gmail.com> wrote:

I think adding http proxy support to tor sounds more interesting. But there seems to be a looong discussion on ticket #6060 whether to add this functionality inside tor or not. What is the final roadmap, if any?

From the outside my impression after reading the ticket (and commenting on it to make it even longer) is that working on an implementation now would be premature as there's a fair chance that it wouldn't make it. My recommendation would be to check the open tickets for smaller and less controversial issues first, to become familiar with the process and to increase the chances that your contributions are actually accepted. Fabian