Using tor, help

[Sebastian Hahn]

On Sep 12, 2010, at 11:45 AM, force44 at Safe-mail.net wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running a tor node (unfortunately not exit node because of the  
> hostign company) since a few months on a dedicated server, all is  
> fine.
>
> I would like that some Perl scripts running on some websites also  
> hosted on this server would connect through the Tor network (Using  
> for example LWP), and will be happy to pay for receiving tech  
> assistance for this.
>
> More exactly I would like an easy method to use for example so that  
> SOME LWP requests are sent through Tor (but I don't want ALL  
> connections go throu Tor, only some of them that I especially want).
>
> Thank you.

For the requests where you want to use Tor, just set up your perl
script to use a socks proxy. IO::Socket::Socks seems to support
proxies, for example. Then you just have to connect to the socks
port of your Tor relay.

Thanks for running a relay!

Sebastian

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