[Popcon-developers] Bug#773663: Bug#773663: popularity-contest: Patch to enable Tor support

[Federico Ceratto]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Bill Allombert <ballombe at debian.org> wrote:
>>> The patch relies on exit nodes to connect to the HTTP service and prevents
>>> SMTP fallback. If a popcon hidden service was to be set up in future, it could
>>> be used with:
>>> SUBMITURLS="http://HIDDEN_SERVICE_NAME/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi"
>
> Is such URL valid if TOR is not used ?
> If not and this is implemented, then USETOR=auto will fail if tor is not available,
> so USETOR and USEHTTP will need to be decoupled (and a variable TOR_SUBMITURLS will
> be needed).

Sorry I was talking about an hypothetical popcon onion service that
does not exist yet.
If we'll ever have one we would have to modify popcon to use new TOR_ variables.
At that point we could probably safely use both HTTP and SMTP (with
different URLS)

As long as the onion service is not there I don't see much benefit in
adding support for
it yet.... or should we?

-- 
Federico