On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 02:01:40AM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: > In the distant past, we had a ".noconnect" special extension in Tor: > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/address-spec.txt#n58 > and the idea was that you would connect to Tor's control port, induce a > request for foo.noconnect, and see if you saw stream events for it. If > you did, things were configured correctly. But we disabled .noconnect > because we worried it could be used to notice Tor users in some way. > And it sounds like that solution wouldn't work for you anyway, because > if things *aren't* configured correctly, then your browser would > generate a funny-looking request that everybody knows is a Globaleaks > Tor check?
If you can connect to the control port, can't you just get the browser to load "google.com", and see if the corresponding stream gets created? _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
