[tor-bugs] #29050 [Community/Tor Support]: Connecting to tor over a socks 5 connection no longer works in 3.5.7

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#29050: Connecting to tor over a socks 5 connection no longer works in 3.5.7
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 Reporter:  arj                    |          Owner:  dgoulet
     Type:  defect                 |         Status:  needs_information
 Priority:  Medium                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Community/Tor Support  |        Version:  Tor: 0.3.5.7
 Severity:  Normal                 |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  regression?            |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                         |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by rl1987):

 * component:  Core Tor/Torsocks => Community/Tor Support


Comment:

 `$ torsocks --port 9051 -u fox -p trustno1 wget https://www.google.com`
 does work for me with torsocks 2.2 (from Debian) and tor 0.3.5.7.

 The above error message is logged when tor SOCKS5 implementation fails to
 parse SOCKS5 username/password auth message.

 * Can you use Wireshark to see what goes on the wire? Perhaps we can see a
 pcap with SOCKS5 exchange that fails?
 * Can you try explicitly setting username and password on your side of
 connection (doesn't matter what username/password exactly - tor doesn't
 check, just requires them to be nonempty when username/password path is
 taken). Does that help?
 * Can you run torsocks with `-d` and show us what it prints?

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