Using tor in http proxied enviroment

Martin Balvers m.balvers at addicts.nl
Fri Aug 12 19:10:55 UTC 2005


Your server probably uses 'NTLM' or 'integrated' authentication, and Tor
can only do 'basic' authentication (AFAIK).

Martin

Alexandre Vieira wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've installed privoxy so I can test with the firefox browser to check
> what's really the error and I found this:
> 
> Aug 12 19:31:32.547 [notice] Tor v0.1.0.14. This is experimental software. Do no
> t rely on it for strong anonymity.
> Aug 12 19:31:32.688 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method win3
> 2
> Aug 12 19:31:34.662 [warn] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received http st
> atus code 407 ("Proxy authentication required") from server '12.217.34.216'. Fai
> ling.
> Aug 12 19:33:39.856 [notice] Tried for 60 seconds to get a connection to [scrubb
> ed]:80. Giving up.
> 
> 
> I configured tor with the correct proyx server, proxy username and
> proxy password but tor doesn't seem to be able to auth properly in our
> proxy server.
> 
> Does anyone know if tor has support for auth in a MS Network DOMAIN
> proxy server?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On 8/12/05, Alexandre Vieira <nullpt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>Thanks for the reply, I didn't noticed that comment :)
>>
>>I've configured tor with the Proxy directives to specify my proxy
>>server, username and password but I'm having problems.
>>
>>LOG:
>>
>>Aug 12 19:06:38.775 [notice] Tor v0.1.0.14. This is experimental software. Do no
>>t rely on it for strong anonymity.
>>Aug 12 19:06:38.853 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method win3
>>2
>>Aug 12 19:08:02.691 [warn] fetch_from_buf_socks(): Your application (using socks
>>5 on port 1863) is giving Tor only an IP address. Applications that do DNS resol
>>ves themselves may leak information. Consider using Socks4A (e.g. via privoxy or
>> socat) instead.
>>Aug 12 19:09:02.267 [notice] Tried for 60 seconds to get a connection to [scrubb
>>ed]:1863. Giving up.
>>
>>
>>I have another proxy authenticator configured and working for our
>>proxy and it works. I noticed that I had to specify our MS network
>>DOMAIN name to get it working. I guess tor can't communicate with our
>>proxy due to this.
>>
>>I tried to set up tor to communicate with this proxy authenticator by
>>specifing the proxyhost to localhost:8888 (port listenet of the proxy
>>authenticator) but it doesn't work as well.
>>
>>Any ideias?
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>On 8/12/05, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Alexandre Vieira wrote:
>>>
>>>>My desktop uses Windows XP, I can't find anything related to Proxy in
>>>>my torrc and I can't see any other configuration files in my
>>>>installation directory.
>>>>
>>>>Am I missing something?
>>>
>>>Read the top of your torrc, where it says
>>>
>>>## See the man page, or http://tor.eff.org/tor-manual.html, for more
>>>## options you can use in this file.
>>>
>>>--Roger
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>Alexandre Vieira - nullpt at gmail.com
>>
> 
> 
> 


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