Are keywords and values in "torrc" (and other) config files case-sensitive?

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Sat Aug 15 12:52:03 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:02:30PM +0200, Ben Stover wrote:
> When I enter some new instructions into e.g. the "torrc" config file:
> Are these keywords and their values case-sensitive or not? 

The keywords are case-insensitive. So ExitNodes and exitnodes are
equivalent.

Whether the values are case-insensitive depends on which keyword we're
talking about. For {us} vs {US}, they should both work fine.

--Roger



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