[tor-onions] web service onionification

[Fabian Keil]

Andreas Krey <a.krey at gmx.de> wrote:

> I'm looking for a guide how to take an existing service,
> and convert it into an .onion-too service (what facebook
> and propublica did).
> 
> Problem: Webservices tend to respond to a single URL
> only (like http://clearservice.com/), and won't deal
> gracefully with requests to http://onionservie.onion/);
> i.e. they might redirect to the clearservice address.
> 
> propublica has published their nginx setup to deal
> with this, but this looks a bit scary.
> 
>   For one, they don't seem to rewrite protocol-relative
>   URLs like href="//sub.clearservice.com/".
> 
>   And then there generally is the question of ensuring
>   that no clearnet URL escapes the rewriting. I guess
>   for that, you'd need to implement a more thorough
>   link checker and not just some ngnix filter rules.
> 
> Thoughts on that?

Here's a brief description of the onion services that
are currently being tested for freiheitsfoo:
http://74i677egkh3zlk6r.onion/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Freiheitsfoo%dcberTor-UnsereOnion-Services

The page is partly in German, but I assume that's not a problem for you.

Fabian
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