I added a small section on detecting Tor.ĭISCLAIMER Tor is an important service for many so please don’t abuse it to perform anything illegal or to bypass security policies. Also, you should keep in mind that Tor’s SOCKS proxy implementation only supports TCP connections and can not be used to proxy UDP traffic.Įnterprises should definetely block Tor traffic (although allowing it to access your public websites is a business decision).
#Configure tor browser mac how to
how to proxy all your traffic through Torįor more on how Tor works, I’d recommend reading the Tor: Overview.how to proxy only certain sites through Tor.limitations of some of the wrappers used to proxy traffic (such as proxychains, proxify, etc).
how to connect to SSH and OpenVPN servers through Tor.how to support other applications that do not support either of the above.how to proxy applications that only support HTTP proxies.how to configure applications that support SOCKS proxying.This blog post will cover configuring Tor as a SOCKS proxy for your applications including: While many are aware of using the Tor Browser, fewer are aware of using Tor to proxy your application traffic and a subset understand the limitations / issues you may run into.
While working on another blog post, I touched lightly on using Tor as a SOCKS proxy and realized that it probably deserved its own blog post. A quick look at how to proxy any application’s traffic through the Tor network.