nostr-rs-relay
nostr-rs-relay copied to clipboard
scsibug
Tor support
Are there plans to include tor support as there is in nostr-ts-relay ?
Great work btw, lean and mean.
I'm really not sure what that would involve. Is there something you could point me to with respect to adding Tor support for network servers? I guess I always thought it would just be run behind some Tor-aware proxy or something.
@scsibug Early on, I looked into this. No tor proxy daemons I could find supported websockets. I tested the most 'Tor-Proxy' and confirmed that this was true. @dr-bonez Maybe, I gave it a go and was unable to connect successfully. Unfortunately I timeboxed myself and ran out of time.
That's too bad. I guess I'll close this. If someone gets it working, I'm open to merging.
Thanks for the effort!
https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay/pull/30 - @dr-bonez seems to have it working, check the PR
If there is interest in Tor, and someone can test, I'm happy to merge. But I'd rather see that happen first, since I don't want someone else going down a rabbit hole thinking this should work.
@dskvr I'm curious what you're talking about. What sort of client are you using? Tor is a tcp based protocol, so nothing special needs to happen to support websockets. Were you using an http proxy for Tor instead of the recommended socks5 proxy?
@dr-bonez I did not test a socks5 proxy. Wish I could tell you more, it was about a month ago, was a short research spike and a lot has happened since then :D
Nothing needs to happen server side to support websockets over Tor. The referenced pr only matters for NIP-05 verification against onion services.
Your client needs to support tor in order for it to work. You can use a system wide socks proxy, or something like torsocks if your client doesn't support socks5 natively.
I can test this whenever someone comes up with a viable test scenario... Seems this would only be needed for "nip-05 verification against onion services"... how does one accomplish this?
