[tor-bugs] #32256 [Applications/Tor Browser]: TorBrowser should advertise Onion Networking capability in the User-Agent: string

Thu Oct 24 11:37:43 UTC 2019

#32256: TorBrowser should advertise Onion Networking capability in the User-Agent:
string
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 Reporter:  alecmuffett               |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
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Comment (by alecmuffett):

 Here's the hack which Privacy International use for redirection, setting
 up a cronjob to reliably fetch a list of exit nodes every 6 hours, and
 populating a "geo" database for NGINX to query.

 This may sound trivial to the average Tor/Privacy engineer, but is
 significant hassle and cognitive load for owners of smaller sites; a
 simple regexp check against User-Agent would be far, far cheaper.

 https://twitter.com/CJFWeatherhead/status/1187331495683338240

 https://gist.github.com/CJFWeatherhead/3b907ffc0817a1255658df2195a68a75

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