[tor-talk] How to choose to get connected to a specific relay?

[Zaher F.]

> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:23:46 -0400
> From: arma at mit.edu
> To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] How to choose to get connected to a specific relay?
> 
i appreciate explanation ...is it possible to replace the fingerprint by the ip or the name of the exit node????
> 
> When your browser connects to the webserver, it sends an http "Host:"
> header to specify which virtual host (domain) it wanted the webserver
> to give it. It chooses this virthost based on the address you typed into
> your browser. So in this case your browser sends
> 
> Host: torproject.org.6297b13a687b521a59c6bd79188a2501ec03a065.exit
> 
> and the poor webserver is left to guess which virthost you had in mind,
> because it hasn't been configured to handle that virthost.
> 
> Looks like the apache config for www.torproject.org defaults to giving
> you the virthost you expected, and the apache config for torproject.org
> defaults to giving you a virthost you didn't expect.
> 
> Privoxy has a config option;
>   +client-header-filter{hide-tor-exit-notation}
> that looks through all your Host: headers and strips "foo.exit" from them.
> We could imagine teaching Torbutton to do that too.
> 
> But the real answer is that you are seeing just how much of a hack the
> dot-exit notation was. :) I say was because it's deprecated in 0.2.2
> and later.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> --Roger
> 
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