[tor-talk] Downloading files when using Tor.

[blobby at openmailbox.org]

On 2016-04-05 17:33, blobby at openmailbox.org wrote:
> On 2016-04-03 12:32, Nicolas Vigier wrote:
>> On Sun, 03 Apr 2016, 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.
>> 
>> Yes, the download will be done through the Tor network. However the 
>> other
>> application that you use to open the file could do connections without
>> Tor.
> 
> Thanks. That's what I thought. Some time ago I looked at what happened
> in Wireshark and it showed heavy traffic while downloading between my
> IP and the exit node IP.
> 
> However, the previous commentator before you did seem to think
> something different for some reason.

I meant Wireshark showed traffic between my IP and the Tor node entry IP 
not the exit node IP.