[Whonix-devel] #14273 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate missing Tor Browser patches to make Unix Domain Socket option work

Mon Aug 29 21:06:04 CEST 2016

#14273: Investigate missing Tor Browser patches to make Unix Domain Socket option
work
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:
                                                 |  mikeperry
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_review
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-security, TorBrowserTeam201608R  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #14270                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  SponsorU
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Comment (by mcs):

 Thinking about this some more, for the alpha I assume we want to use Unix
 domain sockets by default on Linux and OSX. That means we should change
 torrc-defaults to use a path for SocksPort and ControlPort. And then we
 will need to change the browser's network.proxy.socks pref value to match
 the SocksPort value. The pref value needs to be a file: URL and of course
 the SocksPort and ControlPort directives need to look like
 unix:/path/to/socket.

 Do you want Kathy and I to create appropriate patches for tor-browser and
 builders/tor-browser-bundle?

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