[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:  reopened           
    Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Tor: very long term
   Component:  Tor Client   |     Version:                     
  Resolution:               |    Keywords:                     
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Comment(by ioerror):

 Replying to [comment:29 proper]:
 > Since Nick unfortunately rejected (or not?) being the http proxy
 directly inside Tor AND managing Shim with HttpPort... Here is my
 proposal...
 >

 Well, we should probably back off from mentioning Shim. We don't need shim
 per se. I believe we'd just need support for CONNECT and a few other
 things. I believe RFC2616 and RFC3143 are relevant here.

 > Who says torc may only be phrased by Tor? Users can still add HttPort's
 to torrc. Tor is free to ignore them.
 >

 Indeed - we can do this today with comments. eg:
 {{{
 #shimListenPort 8080
 }}}

 That is however totally horrible. We should not take that path for the
 love of anonymity.

 > The tor-http package (or other name) contains Shim and ALSO phrases
 torrc. tor-http forwards the traffic to SocksPort 9050 (or different,
 configured in torrc). Each HttpPort will start a Shim instance. Each Shim
 instance will use a different SOCKS username for stream isolation.

 We could do such a thing if this really is a dead issue. I think we should
 not consider that unless we're really hard up. I'd much prefer the tackle
 this with a zygote approach.

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