[tor-bugs] #6940 [TorBirdy]: analyze thunderbird HTTP proxy behaviour

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#6940: analyze thunderbird HTTP proxy behaviour
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 Reporter:  tagnaq    |          Owner:  sukhbir 
     Type:  task      |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:          
Component:  TorBirdy  |        Version:          
 Keywords:            |         Parent:          
   Points:            |   Actualpoints:          
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Changes (by sukhbir):

 * cc: sukhbir.in@… (added)


Comment:

 Hi,

 [TorBirdy + TBTracer]

 - user has no HTTP proxy set at all

 With TorBirdy, I disabled the HTTP/SSL proxies. Thunderbird was not
 leaking anything -- everything was being routed through Tor.

 Addons - worked.
 Updates - worked.

 I could see mostly HTTPS connections, however, I do see some plain
 HTTP GET requests being made. Say this:

 [HTTP]  [Sunday, September 23, 2012 6:09:57 PM] GET /contribute/
 HTTP/1.1 Host: www.mozilla.org Accept:
 text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
 Connection: keep-alive
 [HTTP]  [Sunday, September 23, 2012 6:09:59 PM] HTTP/1.1 302 Found
 Server: Apache X-Backend-Server: bedrock4.webapp.scl3.mozilla.com
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012
 18:06:12 GMT

 This happens (infrequently) when the addons page (and with specific
 addons) is being accessed. So any thoughts about this?

 - user has a HTTP proxy set but there is no proxy running

 (the earlier approach)

 Addons - not working.
 Updates - not working.

 I have pushed the new changes (no HTTP/SSL proxies).

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