[tor-bugs] #6060 [Tor Client]: add http proxy support to Tor

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#6060: add http proxy support to Tor
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 Reporter:  proper       |          Owner:  arma               
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  assigned           
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:  Tor: very long term
Component:  Tor Client   |        Version:                     
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Comment(by ioerror):

 Replying to [comment:18 andrea]:
 > I'm not sure an http proxy *inside Tor* necessarily strikes me as the
 best idea, but a good general purpose mechanism to control stream
 isolation from outside the Tor daemon itself and a separate HTTP->SOCKS5
 proxy designed to make use of that does.

 I generally agree from every perspective excepting usability. As it stands
 now our users have a spattering of different http proxy servers or _no_
 HTTP proxy server. The former results in crazy mis-configurations and
 security issues, the latter results in leaks (!) and worse.

 If Tor launches it as we do with tor-fw-helper, I think it isn't really
 "inside Tor" in a meaningful sense. I think a thread is generally "inside
 Tor" and in this case, I'm torn - if it is a thread, users will just get
 an HTTP proxy without any fuss, once we solve the fussy part for them. If
 it is a program we exec(), I am certain it won't be as straight forward
 for them to actually use it.

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