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Tor Support On Windows & Linux #373

Open hoadlck opened 4 years ago

hoadlck commented 4 years ago

What is up with the Tor support on Windows? Or in Linux? Does it actually work right for people?

While doing the restructuring, I am testing in more depth as I change the code. And, I discovered that Tor requests were not working for me (I did have the Tor Browser installed).

When I tried to run a query with Tor, I got an uncaught exception that said the following: OSError: 'tor' isn't available on your system. Maybe it's not in your PATH?

I did some more research, and found the following StackOverflow answer. In the end, it appears that if I have an instance of the Tor browser running, and I tell Sherlock what the Tor control port is, then Sherlock seems to work. Or, at least, it does not throw an error.

Here is the change that I made: underlying_request = TorRequest(ctrl_port=9151)

It appears that there are ways to install Tor directly in the system. If that is done, then perhaps the specific port that I used above could be changed?

This support was originally added in #31 by @mpieters93.

I think at a minimum there needs to be some changes so that the error message is more graceful. I am not sure of the consequence of changing Sherlock so that the control port is 9151. This needs more research.

PeskyPotato commented 4 years ago

I tried this on Linux Mint 19

I had to first install tor

apt install tor

Enable Control port by uncommenting the line in/etc/tor/torrc. Then stop tor from running

/etc/init.d/tor stop

Sherlock gave the correct results using --tor but when I included the --unique-tor flag I wasn't able to get a single result despite leaving it to run for around 12 minutes. No changes were made to the source code, I'm using an up to date version of master (64eb20e03c1bea0bb178e3eb3dcf3fe2e1637a85).

sdushantha commented 4 years ago

@hoadlck Has this issue been fixed?

hoadlck commented 4 years ago

No, I have not done anything more with it.