[Whonix-devel] #14273 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate missing Tor Browser patches to make Unix Domain Socket option work

Tue Aug 30 09:34:59 CEST 2016

#14273: Investigate missing Tor Browser patches to make Unix Domain Socket option
work
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:
                                                 |  mikeperry
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  tbb-security, TorBrowserTeam201608R  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #14270                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  SponsorU
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Changes (by gk):

 * status:  needs_review => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed

Comment:

 Replying to [comment:12 mcs]:
 > Thinking about this some more, for the alpha I assume we want to use
 Unix domain sockets by default on Linux and OSX. That means we should
 change torrc-defaults to use a path for SocksPort and ControlPort. And
 then we will need to change the browser's network.proxy.socks pref value
 to match the SocksPort value. The pref value needs to be a file: URL and
 of course the SocksPort and ControlPort directives need to look like
 unix:/path/to/socket.
 >
 > Do you want Kathy and me to create appropriate patches for tor-browser
 and builders/tor-browser-bundle?

 That would be neat. You could use #14270 for that or create a new child
 ticket of it for this task I guess.

 FWIW the rebased Mozilla patch looks good to me. It is applied on tor-
 browser-45.3.0esr-6.5-1 (commit cde73b2295b75898ca435ed9f78541eccf6c34cb).

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