{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/603","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/TheTorProject/ooni-probe","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/603/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/603/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/603/events","html_url":"https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/603","id":177017473,"number":603,"title":"how to view 127.0.0.1:8842 in tor browser ?","user":{"login":"shirishag75","id":727626,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/727626?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75","html_url":"https://github.com/shirishag75","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shirishag75/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2016-09-14T20:51:32Z","updated_at":"2016-09-14T21:39:04Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I see in .ooni/ooniprobe.conf and see the following -\r\n\r\n```\r\n┌─[shirish@debian] - [~/.ooni] - [10501]\r\n└─[$] cat ooniprobe.conf | tail -14 \r\n                                                                                                  \r\ntor:\r\n    #socks_port: 8801\r\n    #control_port: 8802\r\n    # Specify the absolute path to the Tor bridges to use for testing\r\n    #bridges: bridges.list\r\n    # Specify path of the tor datadirectory.\r\n    # This should be set to something to avoid having Tor download each time\r\n    # the descriptors and consensus data.\r\n    # data_dir: ~/.tor/\r\n    torrc:\r\n        #HTTPProxy: host:port\r\n        #HTTPProxyAuthenticator: user:password\r\n        #HTTPSProxy: host:port\r\n        #HTTPSProxyAuthenticator: user:password\r\n```\r\n\r\nNow I changed some of it to -\r\n\r\n```\r\n┌─[shirish@debian] - [~/.ooni] - [10501]\r\n└─[$] cat ooniprobe.conf | tail -14                                                                                                   \r\ntor:\r\n    socks_port: 8801\r\n    control_port: 8802\r\n    # Specify the absolute path to the Tor bridges to use for testing\r\n    #bridges: bridges.list\r\n    # Specify path of the tor datadirectory.\r\n    # This should be set to something to avoid having Tor download each time\r\n    # the descriptors and consensus data.\r\n    data_dir: ~/.tor/\r\n    torrc:\r\n        #HTTPProxy: host:port\r\n        #HTTPProxyAuthenticator: user:password\r\n        #HTTPSProxy: host:port\r\n        #HTTPSProxyAuthenticator: user:password\r\n```\r\n\r\nThe difference is I just uncommented the default socks and control port as well as data dir . Apart from that all is same. I didn't change anything in the torrc as I do not know if something needs to be changed or not, and if yes, how to know what to change. \r\n\r\nI did run ooniprobe-agent and as can be seen it is running -\r\n\r\n```\r\n[$] ooniprobe-agent status\r\n                                                                                                          \r\nooniprobe-agent is running\r\n```\r\nBut unable to see http://127.0.0.1:8842 on torbrowser which has been running from before the virtualenv activation. \r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/comments/247163530","html_url":"https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/603#issuecomment-247163530","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/603","id":247163530,"user":{"login":"hellais","id":424620,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/424620?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais","html_url":"https://github.com/hellais","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hellais/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-14T21:39:04Z","updated_at":"2016-09-14T21:39:04Z","body":"Hum, I think there may be some confusion with respect to what those options do.\r\n\r\nThe settings inside of the Tor section tell ooniprobe which socks_port and control_port it should use to either communicate to a running tor (when start_tor is set to False) or which ports it should use when starting it's own version of Tor (when start_tor is set to True).\r\n\r\nThis is unrelated to it's interaction with Tor Browser Bundle. Ooniprobe network measurements are run over your local network and tor is just used for the submission of the results. Since the address of ooniprobe is on localhost you should access it via a normal browser and not from tor browser bundle."}}
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