On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 18:37 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Yeah. I asked for SOCKS support today in > <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/744934 >. If someone got time to provide > the C++ patch needed, I am sure it would be well received.
SOCKS support is fairly difficult. However, it turns out to be quite easy to add a new apt transport - I can create a package 'apt-transport-tor' that can handle URLs like "tor://http.debian.net/debian". I've got some very very rough but working code here: https://github.com/diocles/apt-transport-tor One advantage of this is that the package can be backported. A patch to apt proper will take some time to get into "real" apt, and then Debian wheezy users can't benefit. Also, it's probably harder to mess up this way - it's very obvious when looking at the URLs fly past that they're coming via tor. -- Tim Retout <dioc...@debian.org>
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