[tor-talk] using bridge directly

[Roger Dingledine]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:39:58PM +0330, kamyar kamyar wrote:
> Is it possible to use bridges directly in browser address bar?

No. You need a local Tor client to use Tor, so it can learn about the
rest of the network, build your circuit, do the crypto, etc.

(If you relied on the bridge to do all these things for you, it would
get to learn your destinations, and the design would be no better than
a single-hop proxy.)

--Roger