Hi Yuri, "Yuri" wrote: >I understand your concerns. But I would also like to >point out that "New Identity" for most implies new >identity for everything. This is how, I believe, majority >of technically not very savvy mass users thinks.
The new identity feature is documented to make *new* connections appear to be from a different user. It doesn't say anywhere that it terminates existing application connections. That's an assumption on the part of the user. The only application where there's an exception is Tor Browser which is coded to break those connections. It needs to do this to deal with web bugs. If some other application has open connections using tor it stand to reason that application has a purpose for keeping the connection open. Either that application will close the connection gracefully or not. It's a hack to force third-party applications to close their connections explicitly and call it a feature of tor. In truth it's something that can already be done. Connect to the tor process using telnet and close the circuits as you see fit. Alternatively connect using Vidalia and close the circuit. I'm sure there are other ways. So, in fact, there's nothing to code to get the feature you want as it's already there. There's no place for the feature in Tor Browser since it already explicitly closes connections related to open tabs--allowing the circuits to close gracefully. It remains the responsibility of any other third-party application to gracefully close their own connections. If they don't the circuit stays open. How's that not a bug you would rather fix in the application itself? --leeroy -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk