unable to connect to backend server in Tor

danny0838 / webscrapbook

A browser extension that captures web pages to local device or backend server for future retrieval, organization, annotation, and edit. This project inherits from legacy Firefox add-on ScrapBook X.

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unable to connect to backend server in Tor #275

Closed mojorissin closed 2 years ago

mojorissin commented 2 years ago

i am trying out Tor (11.0.9 (based on Mozilla Firefox 91.7.0esr) (64-bit)) but cannot connect to backend server of WSB (up to date) ?

working in FireFox (98.0.2 (64-bit))

working in Brave ([Version 1.37.109 Chromium: 100.0.4896.60 (Official Build) (64-bit)

any help or tips to solve this please

kind regards

mojorissin

danny0838 commented 2 years ago

Tor connects through proxies and thus can't access localhost by default.

According to this thread at Stack Exchange, the network.proxy.allow_hijacking_localhost or network.proxy.no_proxies_on configs can be tweaked to allow connection to 127.0.0.1 etc., but there may be a security concern which may potentially break anonymity. Unfortunately I am not the security expert and don't know all the details. Use at your own risk anyway.

mojorissin commented 2 years ago

many thanks for guidance Danny .