[tor-bugs] #6609 [Tor Client]: Proposal to add tor-connect utility to tor-core distribution

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#6609: Proposal to add tor-connect utility to tor-core distribution
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 Reporter:  tri          |          Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor Client   |        Version:     
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Comment(by tri):

 Replying to [comment:3 rransom]:
 > Tor communicates its SocksPort to Vidalia using the Tor control-port
 protocol (how ''that'' gets set up is rather ugly).  Vidalia then provides
 the SOCKS proxy port to TBB-Firefox by setting an environment variable.
 This technique cannot work for any process that is not started by Vidalia.

 I know.  However tor browser does write the socks configuration to disk so
 there aren't really too many security reasons not to store same
 information for example to some fixed file within tor browser tree in
 -r-------- mode.

 e.g. Library/Application\ Support/generic/proxy.dat

 But anyways. My main aim is to get the tool into tor distribution.  Having
 it in tbb would be a big bonus.

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