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Tor2web is an HTTP proxy software that enables access to Tor Hidden Services by mean of common web browsers
https://www.tor2web.org
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how does tor2web works ? #369

Open davidhuang24 opened 4 years ago

davidhuang24 commented 4 years ago

I didn't see any documentation on tor2web github wiki about how tor2web works 。 In addition, the documentation of infrastructure you provided was null. Now that I've successfully configured my own tor2web node, I'd like to know how tor2web works, and it would be nice to be provided with a tor2web design diagram.

davidhuang24 commented 4 years ago

@virgil

davidhuang24 commented 4 years ago

could you please help me ?

evilaliv3 commented 4 years ago

Dear @davidhuang24, thank you for your interest.

Actually Tor2web is a profit supported pro bono by some volunteers; please expect that the answers could be subject to important delay.

There is not that much documentation around the software for this reason, but the concept is simple: Tor2web just acts as a proxy between the user and Tor and make it possible to visit resources in the Tor network without requiring the install Tor. For this reason it intercepts the requests and modify headers that are sent by the browser or sent by the onion service that the user wants to access.

Feel free, during your test and studying about the software to take notes and produce documentation that you consider would be useful to publish and propose it via pull request.

thank you!

davidhuang24 commented 4 years ago

Dear @davidhuang24, thank you for your interest.

Actually Tor2web is a profit supported pro bono by some volunteers; please expect that the answers could be subject to important delay.

There is not that much documentation around the software for this reason, but the concept is simple: Tor2web just acts as a proxy between the user and Tor and make it possible to visit resources in the Tor network without requiring the install Tor. For this reason it intercepts the requests and modify headers that are sent by the browser or sent by the onion service that the user wants to access.

Feel free, during your test and studying about the software to take notes and produce documentation that you consider would be useful to publish and propose it via pull request.

thank you!

ok,thank you