[tor-bugs] #15785 [Tor]: New proxy settings don't close old TLS connections

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#15785: New proxy settings don't close old TLS connections
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 Reporter:  arma    |          Owner:
     Type:  defect  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor     |        Version:
 Keywords:          |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:          |         Points:
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 Start your Tor Browser, and choose 'connect' rather than 'configure'. Load
 a page or two. Then click on the green onion, choose 'tor network
 settings', click on the middle checkbox to configure a proxy, then select
 socks5 as your proxy type, 128.31.0.34 as your address, 23 as your port.
 Click ok. The window disappears, and now my tor-browser_en-
 US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc file has a new line:
 {{{
 Socks5Proxy 128.31.0.34:23
 }}}

 Now load some more pages. They still work! What the heck?

 I think the answer is that Tor is leaving its existing TLS connections
 alone, rather than closing them and then trying to re-establish them using
 the new proxy settings. This behavior surprised me.

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