Re: Making package.el talk over Tor

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The url package has its own Info manual, see doc/misc/url.texi.  If
  > that manual doesn't answer your questions, we need to improve it, but
  > in that case, please tell what is missing from that manual that would
  > have helped you to get the information you needed.

Thanks for telling me about that.  It does say how other packages
should _use_ URL.  It does not explain the internal structure of URL
itself, which is not straightforward.  I think the URL source needs
comments to explain that.

The manual helped me get started towards solving my problem, but not
enough to get me to a solution.

The section Proxies and Gatewaying suggests that perhaps it is
possible to use a Socks gateway to make URL connect through Tor.  But
this short explanation of Socks gateways

    @item socks
    @cindex @sc{socks}
    Use if the firewall has a @sc{socks} gateway running on it.  The
    @sc{socks} v5 protocol is defined in RFC 1928.

doesn't explain enough to show concretely how to do that.

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

The RFC is not likely to give much help, and it might not even mention
the crucial systen-specific details needed to actually do this.

I think each of these gateway methods should have examples showing
concretely how to use it. and one example for `socks' could be using
the Tor demon as a gateway.

In the rest of the manual, I noted these items

    @item dav
    @cindex DAV
    A list of numbers specifying what DAV protocol/schema versions are
    supported.

    @item dasl
    @cindex DASL
    A list of supported DASL search types supported (string form).

which need some sort of explanation of what DAV and DASL mean,
and where to find more info on them.  I don't know those terms.

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