tor controller hangs / doesn't reply

Sambuddho Chakravarty sc2516 at columbia.edu
Wed Jun 3 13:01:09 UTC 2009


I am using :-

 http_proxy=http://localhost:8118

Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:54:03 -0400 Sambuddho Chakravarty
> <sc2516 at columbia.edu> wrote:
>   
>> I use the TorExample.py with slight modification to suit my purpose to 
>> access the tor control service. However I see it hang often and there is 
>> no response from the tor control service. I am not sure what could 
>> possibly be the problem . Its quite non-deterministic . There is no 
>> fixed pattern or occurrences which cause the server to stop responding. 
>> However the situation corresponds to no data being transferred through a 
>> TCP stream using the Tor circuit to which it is assigned. A 'wget' 
>> session which uses Tor to perform the download shows no throughput in 
>> the throughput indicator.
>>
>>     
>      For the wget(1) case, do you have the ftp_proxy and http_proxy
> environment variables both set to "localhost:8118"?
>
>
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