On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:59:34AM -0500, Holmes Wilson wrote: > We???re building a Ricochet-inspired chat app, and there are situations where > we want to create a new hidden service URL. On macOS and Linux we can send a > SIGHUP to make Tor reload its config. What???s the best way to do this on > Windows?
Your best bet is to connect over the controlport and issue a 'signal reload' command. My guess is that you will already be wanting a controller connection, for example to learn about Tor's bootstrap state or other warnings that Tor wants to give you, so hopefully this is an easy answer. :) That said, how did you get into the situation where you want Tor to reload its config file? To me that sounds like you've made some weird UX choices like asking the user to go edit their torrc file, and maybe there are better choices -- for example, you could use setconf and saveconf over the control port to configure the onion service. https://spec.torproject.org/control-spec Hope that helps, --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev