[tbb-bugs] #25622 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate setting MOZ_DISABLE_NONLOCAL_CONNECTIONS to prevent proxy bypasses

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Mon Mar 26 09:16:54 UTC 2018


#25622: Investigate setting MOZ_DISABLE_NONLOCAL_CONNECTIONS to prevent proxy
bypasses
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     Reporter:  gk                   |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor     |    Version:
  Browser                            |   Keywords:  ff60-esr, tbb-proxy-
     Severity:  Normal               |  bypass
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 It turns out Mozilla has an environment variable,
 MOZ_DISABLE_NONLOCAL_CONNECTIONS, that might be helpful for preventing
 proxy bypasses or, if that's not the case right now, it might be patched
 so that it does indeed function as one would expect. See:
 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2018-March/000818.html for
 more context.

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