Tor SOCKS crashing Mac WebKit browsers

Jay Goodman Tamboli jay at tamboli.cx
Wed Nov 15 01:48:52 UTC 2006


I'm still a little fuzzy on these details, but my web browser has  
been crashing a lot recently, and I've been having a heck of a time  
tracking down the reason. It now appears that some (but not all)  
HTTPS sites, loaded with Tor as a SOCKS proxy, cause WebKit-based  
browsers (Safari, OmniWeb) to crash. The same sites loaded with no  
proxy or with Privoxy as an HTTPS proxy load fine.

I'm running Tor 0.1.2.3-alpha, so I'm going to try to test this with  
0.1.2.2 to see if it makes a difference. Whatever the case, the  
browser shouldn't be crashing, even if Tor is sending it bad data. Is  
there any way I can monitor the data being sent between Tor and the  
browser, though, or is there a way to find out if there is a problem  
with the way Tor is acting as a SOCKS proxy?

Thanks,

/jgt
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