[Foundation-l] Release of squid log data

[Ben McIlwain]

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Anthony wrote:

>> And my simple conclusion is this: Tor is slow.  Really really
>> slow.  It turns a 100ms page load into a page load that takes many
>> seconds, *if* it doesn't time out.
> 
> Do you have the latest version?  I'm getting fairly consistent page
> loads of less than a second right now.  Maybe it's because of the exit
> node thing.  But it seems to me like you must not have the latest
> version.

Yeah, I have the latest version.  The speed issues are widely
experienced by many, many people.  It's not just me.  You seem to be lucky.

>> Even that is difficult though,
>> because you'll end up clicking a link that takes you to unsecure http
>> pages (such as a diff links), and before you can blink, your admin
>> cookie has gone across the web unencrypted.  As far as I can see there
>> is no fool-proof way of using Tor with Wikipedia, except for maybe
>> blocking unencrypted http Wikipedia at a firewall level.
> 
> Cookies don't get sent to the unsecure pages, and the diff links
> aren't unsecure.

Diff links are insecure.  When someone puts a diff link onto a page, the
secure proxy does not edit that link to turn it into a secure link.  As
for the cookies issue, I guess I was confusing myself because I am
logged onto en-wiki as well as the secure proxy.
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