Re: [tor-dev] authentication questions on Tor controller

2012-11-08 Thread Damian Johnson
Hi Jiang. First, TorCtl is being deprecated by two newer (more actively developed) controller libraries... Stem (https://stem.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Threaded library with a similar design to TorCtl. Txtorcon (https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Twisted based controller library.

[tor-dev] authentication questions on Tor controller

2012-11-08 Thread jiang song
I just start to use tor controller, I notice the mannual says: pass Tor the "--CookieAuthentication 1" option when you start it. Tor will create a file in its data directory called "control_auth_cookie". All your controller needs to do is to pass the contents of this file to authenticate() wh