[tor-talk] Using Orbot standalone

[Alessandro Donnini]

Hi Natahn,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Well, I am having a few problems incorporating littelproxy 
(https://github.com/mrog/LittleProxy - a proxy server running on 
Android) code into my app. Not that simple, at least for me.

"Every Proxy" from Gorilla Software uses littleproxy as its foundation. 
It seems to work reasonably well on Android. This gives me hope that I 
will be able to resolve my problems.

I have netguard. It's not designed to be used as part of another app. 
There is a lot of "stripping" to be done. It's an option I have not 
ruled out.

I would still prefer to use a proxy server. I think that in the end it 
would give me more flexibility and control.

Thanks,

Alex Donnini

P.S. I have tried a few other open source proxy servers none of them 
successfully (e.g. https://github.com/mileraheel/android-proxy-app)

Nathan Freitas wrote:
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>> On Mar 30, 2022, at 10:36 AM, Alessandro Donnini via tor-talk <tor-talk at lists.torproject.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I apologize in advance if this question (see below) was asked (and answered) previously. I could not find any information on it.
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>> I would like to incorporate a proxy server in my Androd app to perform gate keeping and toll taking functions.
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>> Orbot is described as
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>> "... and also provides an HTTP Proxy for connecting web browsers and other HTTP client applications into the Tor SOCKS interface. ..."
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>> Could (a modified) Orbot be used as a device-based proxy server without interfacing with the Tor network?
> It isn’t really meant for that, and would be overkill.
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> Running a local proxy server in an Android Service isn’t that difficult.
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> Alternatively, you could use the VPNBuilder interface, which would make "gate keeping and toll taking functions” work quite well.
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> I would look at NetGuard for that: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
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> +n
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