Re: lynx to work as anonymous browser

David Woolley wrote in <7a947f27-8a87-3095-c549-a7e5d1d40a61@david-wooll\
ey.me.uk>:
 |On 03/10/2019 18:53, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> there, but since lynx is a browser not
 |> a DNS resolver
 |
 |Browsers normally use DNS resolvers, but the TOR people insist they must 
 |not, and must pass the unresolved domain name to the TOR system.  Doing 
 |a DNS lookup on the domain part of a URL leaks information about the 
 |site you are accessing.

Yeah, but why do you strip the rest of the message you cite.  The
SOCKS5 protocol allows passing IP addresses and host names to the
proxy, but the patch only passes the host name.  This should
satisfy that constraint, no?

Cheerio,

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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