Force exitnode oddness

Geoff Down downie at castlecops.net
Tue Sep 30 02:14:00 UTC 2008


I have Privoxy, so that is possible (if anyone has the filter rule 
already I would appreciate it).
But if Privoxy strips the .exit bit, how does Tor then get the 
information about which node to use?
GD
On 30 Sep 2008, at 01:13, coderman wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Geoff Down <downie at castlecops.net> 
> wrote:
>> ...
>> the hostname is being rejected because it contains the .<node>.exit .
>> Presumably that should have been stripped by my Tor client or the 
>> exit node.
>
> you actually need a proxy that supports the .exit syntax scrubbing,
> like privoxy with appropriate rules, in order to use .exit syntax for
> a virtual host domain to work properly.  otherwise, the host header
> (and possibly other values, like cookie domain) will be incorrect.
>
> best regards,



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