Torsocks curl vs curl --socks5

Question

On my linux box, I have both Tor and Tor browser bundle installed and running.

I was wondering which of those two is to be preferred (in the sense of being the most robust to potential "anonymity leaks", the fastest, and the "most logical"):

torsocks curl http://example.com

or

curl --socks5 127.0.0.1:9150 http://example.com

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '14 at 21:22

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You should use either

torsocks curl http://example.com

or

curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 http://example.com

to ensure that DNS requests aren't leaked.

answered Jun 25 '14 at 21:22

muchan

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 27 '14 at 01:41

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You should definitely use torsocks curl here, because curl --socks5 does NOT use the given SOCKS proxy to resolve DNS name. See torsocks documentation for more specifics. Also, you can use usewithtor [application] instead of torsocks [application].

edited Jun 27 '14 at 01:41

mirimir

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answered Jun 25 '14 at 18:22

dgoulet

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 15 '16 at 04:37

ONLY curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 http://example.com because to not-leak-dns you must not doing DNS queries =) and --socks5-hostname clause forces NOT using resolvers at all, and passing the raw hostname to the proxy to resolve. Forget 'torificators' if a program/library supports total avoiding DNS queries.

Torsocks curl vs curl --socks5

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