[tor-talk] [IDEA] Google App Engine, Tor Hidden Service Viewer

[Nathan Suchy]

Explain what you mean by reach your mirrored and why would I get a
complaint for proxy service? I already do this and many others do too with
ease. Google protects it's members.
On Jan 12, 2014 8:41 PM, "Roger Dingledine" <arma at mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:00:46PM -0500, Nathan Suchy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just had the greatest idea that came into my head. There is a Tor
> > implentation of Tor called JTor written in Java, and Google App Engine
> > offers Free to Low Cost Application Hosting. Why not use JTor and modify
> it
> > as Java Backend to connect to Tor Hidden Services and combine it with the
> > Mirrorrr <https://github.com/bslatkin/mirrorrr> (through a modified
> version
> > of Jython). It would allow people to view Tor Hidden Services from a
> > standard web browser with a limited amount of anonymity. What do you guys
> > think of this project? I'm going to learn Java and this is going to be my
> > project. "JTHSV" (Java Tor Hidden Service Viewer). I'm not a programmer
> yet
> > but is this project do-able?
>
> Sounds like it would work.
>
> But I also suspect that somebody will eventually get upset at some
> content that somebody tries to reach through your mirrorrr, and I bet
> Google App Engine will be pleased to shut you off at the first complaint.
>
> See http://tor2web.org/ for a project that already does all of this
> (though not with Java and not with Google App Engine). You should learn
> about their work building a community of people willing to host the
> tor2web proxies.
>
> --Roger
>
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