[tor-bugs] #21952 [Webpages]: .Onion everywhere?: increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and aliasing

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#21952: .Onion everywhere?: increasing the use of onion services through automatic
redirects and aliasing
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 Reporter:  linda            |          Owner:  linda
     Type:  project          |         Status:  reopened
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  Webpages         |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team, tor-hs  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                   |         Points:
 Reviewer:                   |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by traumschule):

 Replying to [comment:54 dcf]:
 > > We don’t think you should need to remember this address. Ideally, all
 you would need to do is go to [https://tor.cloudflare-dns.com/ https://tor
 .cloudflare-dns.com] and have the browser route your request to the .onion
 address. This is possible using the "[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7838
 Alt-Svc]" HTTP header which is an optional header notifying the browser
 that the resources can be accessed from an alternative network location,
 possibly using a different protocol. Thanks to
 [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/
 Mozilla], using .onion addresses as alternative services is now possible
 in [https://nightly.mozilla.org/ Firefox Nightly].
 >
 > When I go to https://tor.cloudflare-dns.com/, I see
 > {{{
 > Alt-Svc:
 h2="dns4torpnlfs2ifuz2s2yf3fc7rdmsbhm6rw75euj35pac6ap25zgqad.onion:443";
 ma=315360000; persist=1
 > }}}
 >
 > As far as I can tell, the `Alt-Svc` header doesn't actually ''do''
 anything yet in Tor Browser (maybe it does in Firefox), but there is
 #26365.
 #27502 asks for this feature.

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