Force exitnode oddness

[Geoff Down]

Those nice people at Privoxy have anticipated the need :)
+filter {hide-tor-exit-notation}
+filter-client-headers
.exit/

It looks like cookies are sent properly even though they are stored 
under the modified domain name.
It also looks like some page requisites (images etc) may be fetched 
from a different circuit i.e. not respecting the forced exit node. 
Could be a problem if the page contains absolute URIs.
It's an interesting problem. I suppose the only way to be sure is to 
edit the Tor config for strict-exit-nodes and restart it?

GD
On 30 Sep 2008, at 03:38, John Brooks wrote:

> Tor cares about the hostname it is told to connect to having the
> '.exit' suffix - privoxy won't modify that (afaik). What you want to
> modify with privoxy is the Host header, so the server you're
> connecting to can properly handle virtual hosting. So, you want a
> filter rule to modify the Host header and remove '.something.exit'
> from the end if present. I'm not a privoxy user myself, so I don't
> have any insight on how to actually do that, but I hope that helps.
>
> - John Brooks
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Geoff Down <downie at castlecops.net> 
> wrote:
>> 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,
>>
>>