[tor-talk] wget - secure?

[David H. Lipman]

From: <helpfulnoob at Safe-mail.net>

> Hi
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom at gmail.com>
> Apparently from: tor-talk-bounces at lists.torproject.org
> To: "tor-talk at lists.torproject.org" <tor-talk at lists.torproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] wget - secure?
> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 19:14:51 -0400
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks for these config settings, Does it also leak if I use: >
>> torify wget http://example.com >
>> ?
>>
>> Is this what torify does?
>
> I dont understand what you're asking. Does _what_ also leak? In my http 
> tests [1] DNS and
> Headers didn't leaked (SOCKS4a and SOCKS5), but, I couldn't test the IP 
> issue with FTP
> PORT Robert Randsom wrote about (I'm ignorant of testing methods).
> I cant write about torify as I didn't test. But yes, I believe it can be 
> used to 'force'
> wget through Tor. Whether that would help with the FTP IP Robert Randsom 
> wrote about, I
> have no clue, I don't know if torify does FTP.
>

You can force WGET to use Tor just by using the WGETRC directives

use_proxy = on
http_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:8118/


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