Opened 15 months ago

Last modified 4 weeks ago

#24215 new task

Use Tor's built-in HTTP proxy instead of polipo. Remove Polipo from Orbot. Comment from other cypherpunks: current Orbot version does, but in about orbot popup it still reads polipo! but httptunnelport is bound

Reported by: cypherpunks Owned by: n8fr8
Priority: Very High Milestone:
Component: Applications/Orbot Version:
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: eighthave Actual Points:
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Description

Tor alpha now include HTTP proxy by default. You should use it instead of polipo.

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Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 4 months ago by cypherpunks

Summary: Use Tor's built-in HTTP proxy instead of polipo. Remove Polipo from Orbot. → Use Tor's built-in HTTP proxy instead of polipo. Remove Polipo from Orbot. Comment from other cypherpunks: current Orbot version does, but in about orbot popup it still reads polipo! but httptunnelport is bound

comment:2 Changed 7 weeks ago by eighthave

Cc: eighthave added

comment:3 Changed 4 weeks ago by o9491020

Unfortunately, this does not work for connections starts with HTTP (i.e., when user type "archive.org" in browser and get redirect to HTTPS) and you'll get empty string with this error in Tor log

Nov 12 18:46:07 [removed] Tor[15935]: Saying "HTTP/1.0 405 Method Not Allowed\r\n\r\n"

See
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27821

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