#Wget proxy how to#
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Unsetting the http_proxy environment variables stop wget trying to use a proxy outside of Tor and potentially either contaminating another proxy with traffic intended to be anonymous (e.g. Personally, I think the wiki stuff is outdated and needs some kinda purge with fire.Д®xec torsocks /usr/lib/wget/wget -passive-ftp script is set as the default wget (through dpkg-divert, so that non-torified wget would be hard to accidentally run) and will wrap any call to wget.

#Wget proxy how to#

Packets' but offers no explanation of how to do them, or what theД¬onsequences of doing them are. 'using proxy chains' and 'configuring your firewall to drop all UDP This one the best answers talk about doing a lot of things like

How to use command line utilities through Tor?.

How-to for basic use, but does not mention any of the security leaks This one is where I originally heard about torify.

How to anonymize the programs from the terminal?.

Beginner-friendly advice would be preferred, but any information would be appreciated. Please keep in mind that I don't know much about advanced networking and the inner workings of tor. What about Tails? Is any of this configuration necessary to make wget work securely running in Tails? What do they mean? Is this still the right way to configure wget for use with torify? Because really the main problem here is that the link that recommends those configurations clearly states that that is all 'Old Advice (outdated).'

I really have no idea what that error message or those config lines mean. WARNING torsocks: Connection to a local address are denied since it might be a TCP DNS query to a local DNS server. There it says for Unix/Linux to edit /home/user/.bashrc and add these lines: http_proxy=ДЄnd then it says to edit /etc/wgetrc and add these lines: http_proxy = use_proxy = onД«ut doing that causes torify wget to fail with this error: Connecting to localhost (localhost)|127.0.0.1|:8118. This link (which seems official) specifically mentions configuring wget for torify

#Wget proxy download#

I know that I can use torify wget and it will download file/s, and I know that using the suggested method from this post (getting public IP address) that running this: wget -qO -Дo successfully return different IP addresses.Д«ut a lot of sources always imply that it's not that simple and other identifying information could be leaked by wget.

I'm using Ubuntu Linux 16.04, with tor installed from the repositories, but using the stand-alone browser bundle is accepteable as long as it can be used through the command line/scripts. How can I find out how to configure wget to work securely with torify? The official documentation for doing it seems outdated.