[tor-talk] Downloading files when using Tor.

[Nicolas Vigier]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2016, blobby at openmailbox.org wrote:

> 
> Just to check: I am using TBB and I download a file (PDF, EXE, whatever) and
> the box comes up which says "Tor Browser cannot display this file. You will
> need to open it with another application", presumably if I click "OK" then
> the download happens via the Tor network.
> 
> In other words: the download cannot happen outside of the Tor network.

Yes, the download will be done through the Tor network. However the other
application that you use to open the file could do connections without
Tor.

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