[tor-dev] hidden service involvement in external program

[Andrea Shepard]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 04:34:16PM +0200, Tomas Bortoli wrote:
> Hi all, I want to develop a program that connects to a hidden server through
> tor. This is my problem: how can i establish a connection to the server from
> the client? I read the hidden service protocol, but i need a usable
> implementation of it. So i was looking in stem but seems it doesn't provide
> this functionality, i'm wrong?  Anyone have an idea of how can i achieve a
> solution?? any library already implemented?

You would have to implement most of a Tor client to do it the way you're
thinking, including all the path selection and circuit building and everything.

You should just connect through Tor's SOCKS5 port.

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Andrea Shepard
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