[tor-bugs] #33705 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: Add header to redirect websites visitors using tor-browser to the .onion address

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#33705: Add header to redirect websites visitors using tor-browser to the .onion
address
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 Reporter:  hiro                                 |          Owner:  hiro
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
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 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
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Comment (by antonela):

 Thanks for opening this ticket, hiro!

 At the moment there is no standard to redirect users to onions. Thanks to
 our work with S27, we deployed some features in the Tor Browser, which
 improves the experience of users reaching onions. Given that it is the
 first time we are prioritizing onions in Tor Browser, we decided to prompt
 users the first time of use and allow them to opt-in to prioritize onions
 globally.

 I hope that at some point, we can reach a moment where we can contemplate
 all stakeholder's needs and develop a standard for this TLS upgrade
 without messing around the domain naming business.

 For now, onion-location seems a to go for Tor Browser users, and (if I'm
 not wrong), alt-svc will work in clients like Brave. The end-user
 experience will be a little different, but both options will serve onions.

 I'm happy to learn about your pain-points implementing this. It will serve
 as material for our next iteration in this space.

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