Better Tor support #859

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opened 2025-06-20 20:12:25 +00:00 by n · 3 comments

n commented

2025-06-20 20:12:25 +00:00

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Something like Prosody's mod_onions would be nice to have. Specifically, overrides like resolve server A to onion A so that a clearnet server can interact with Tor servers. Could also bypass TLS validation and really TLS as a whole for onions.
It would also be nice to have I2P support in this, but that would be more complicated (i.e. use address helper or b32?)

Something like Prosody's [mod_onions](https://modules.prosody.im/mod_onions) would be nice to have. Specifically, overrides like resolve server A to onion A so that a clearnet server can interact with Tor servers. Could also bypass TLS validation and really TLS as a whole for onions. It would also be nice to have I2P support in this, but that would be more complicated (i.e. use address helper or b32?)

Jade commented

2025-06-20 20:13:40 +00:00

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Could you describe what mod_onions does a bit more and explain why SOCKS proxy support isn't good enough?

Jade commented

2025-06-20 20:14:38 +00:00

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Also differences from #108

Also differences from https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity/issues/108

n commented

2025-06-20 20:36:20 +00:00

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@Jade wrote in #859 (comment):

Could you describe what mod_onions does a bit more and explain why SOCKS proxy support isn't good enough?

mod_onions basically makes it a lot easier to deal with Tor servers in XMPP, i.e. clearnet servers can join MUCs on Tor servers and vice versa. Although, Matrix would need a better solution so this isn't really possible.

@Jade wrote in https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity/issues/859#issuecomment-16261: > Could you describe what mod_onions does a bit more and explain why SOCKS proxy support isn't good enough? mod_onions basically makes it a lot easier to deal with Tor servers in XMPP, i.e. clearnet servers can join MUCs on Tor servers and vice versa. Although, Matrix would need a better solution so this isn't really possible.