[tor-dev] Tor port restriction option was removed

[Keifer Bly]

So tor will automatically use port 80 or 443 if Those are the only ones open?

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> On Jul 4, 2018, at 8:31 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
>> Oh, you're right! That's weird! Was this done on purpose or is it a bug?
> 
> It was an intentional simplification of the interface. You can read the
> reasoning here:
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11405#comment:7
> 
> Our helpdesk (back when we had one) was interacting with many users who
> were doing the wrong thing with the old interface.
> 
> The reasoning in short is that if 443 is one of your available ports
> then your Tor will bootstrap pretty quickly anyway, and if 443 and 9001
> aren't available you're probably going to need some bridge or proxy or
> something in order to bootstrap.
> 
> --Roger
> 
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