Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: akib@disroot.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:39:36 -0500
> 
>   > No, url.el eventually calls `make-network-process', that directly
>   > invokes the respective networking system calls, not making it possible
>   > to interject torsocks.
> 
> Is this the code you mean?
> 
>                     (open-network-stream
>                      name buffer host service
>                      :type gw-method
>                      ;; Use non-blocking socket if we can.
>                      :nowait (and (featurep 'make-network-process)
>                                     (url-asynchronous url-current-object)
>                                     '(:nowait t)))

Yes.

> How can I make that use TOR?

Perhaps the ':type shell' connection is the solution?