browser footprint

[Tomás Arribas]

> Tor isn't the right place to be mangling application protocols if it
> can be avoided.  That's for protocol-specific tools to do in front of
> Tor, such as the HTTP proxy packages you mention---or it can be in the
> browser configuration itself (which also hits HTTPS and such, which is
> an advantage).  Tor is and should be for transport only.

I think the best place to have this feature is in Torbutton.

Tomás

2008/7/21 Drake Wilson <drake at begriffli.ch>:
> Quoth 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o at gmail.com>, on 2008-07-21 16:41:47 -0400:
>> If doing this in TOR is not practical or too far off, TOR could at least
>> officially recommend the replacement signatures that most users could
>> apply using our own devices (e.g. tweaking polipo, using privoxy,
>> proximitron, etc.).
>
> Tor isn't the right place to be mangling application protocols if it
> can be avoided.  That's for protocol-specific tools to do in front of
> Tor, such as the HTTP proxy packages you mention---or it can be in the
> browser configuration itself (which also hits HTTPS and such, which is
> an advantage).  Tor is and should be for transport only.
>
> Recommending certain configurations is probably reasonable if there's
> enough consensus on them.
>
>   ---> Drake Wilson
>