[tor-bugs] #21952 [User Experience]: Increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and aliasing

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#21952: Increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and
aliasing
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 Reporter:  linda            |          Owner:  linda
     Type:  enhancement      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  User Experience  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
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 Reviewer:                   |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by micah):

 Right now, the current way that Riseup is doing this is the first one that
 asn enumerates:

 1. 1/hr cronjob that downloads the current exit list
 2. leaning on apache/nginx geoip modules to webserver redirect any user
 that comes from an IP in the above list to the onion address

 This works fairly well, I have reasonable ways to do it in apache and
 nginx. This was the mechanism that ilf and I were developing and were
 wanting to document and promote more to get onion operators to do, rather
 than trying to do this tor mapping thing.

 There are a couple cases where it doesn't work perfectly that I've run
 into:

 1. One user who runs an exit node on their home network router, NATing all
 their connections through that same IP, but does not run TBB, was unhappy
 that they were redirected to .onion sites because they didn't want to use
 TBB all the time. This was a bit of a rare case. The user agreed to try to
 use TBB instead in the future, but also was willing to provide me his
 relay FP so I could remove it from the redirect rules.

 2. One user who was concerned about the redirection, thought they had been
 hacked and were being redirected to a nefarious site.

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