[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:          
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   Points:            |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by ioerror):

 gpg2 on Ubuntu seems to support things a little better but it still
 doesn't work:

 {{{
 gpg2 --keyserver-options http-proxy=socks5://127.0.0.1:9050,debug,verbose
 --search jacob at appelbaum.net
 gpg: searching for "jacob at appelbaum.net" from hkp server pool.sks-
 keyservers.net
 gpgkeys: curl version = libcurl/7.21.3 GnuTLS/2.8.6 zlib/1.2.3.4
 libidn/1.18
 gpgkeys: search type is 0, and key is "jacob at appelbaum.net"
 * About to connect() to proxy 127.0.0.1 port 9050 (#0)
 *   Trying 127.0.0.1... * connected
 * Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port 9050 (#0)
 > GET http://pool.sks-
 keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&options=mr&search=jacob%40appelbaum.net
 HTTP/1.1
 Host: pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371
 Accept: */*
 Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
 Pragma: no-cache
 Cache-Control: no-cache

 * HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
 < HTTP/1.0 501 Tor is not an HTTP Proxy
 < Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 <
 * Closing connection #0
 gpg: key "jacob at appelbaum.net" not found on keyserver
 }}}

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