[tor-talk] Downloading files when using Tor.

Pickfire pickfire at riseup.net
Sun Apr 3 12:15:56 UTC 2016


On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 11:28:59AM +0000, blobby at openmailbox.org wrote:
>Just to check: I am using TBB and I download a file (PDF, EXE, 
>whatever) and the box comes up which says "Tor Browser cannot display 
>this file. You will need to open it with another application", 
>presumably if I click "OK" then the download happens via the Tor 
>network.
>
>In other words: the download cannot happen outside of the Tor network.

Nope, the download can happen outside Tor network. You are using Tor
browser which depend on Tor, not Tor itself.

Just set the proxy environment and you can use Tor for all the
application.

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