[tor-dev] Onion Service v2 Deprecation Timeline

[meskio]

Quoting Alec Muffett (2020-06-16 14:10:24)
>    On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 12:15, meskio <[1]meskio at sindominio.net> wrote:
> 
>      I'm wondering if it will make sense to use Onion-Location in V2 onion
>      services
>      to advertise the V3 onion. So existing known V2 services can use it to
>      upgrade
>      their users to V3.
> 
>      AFAIK right now tor-browser ignores the Onion-Location header if is
>      already
>      coming from an onion service. Will it make sense to stop ignoring it at
>      least
>      for V2 onion services?
> 
>    Or the site could just issue a Location header and/or explicit redirect to
>    the v3 service?
>    After all, if the v2 site is compromised to the point where that's a
>    problem, then there are larger issues / "game over", etc.

True, I agree I don't see much value added to do the Onion-Location instead of 
just doing a redirect. I guess this is a better way of upgrading users.

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