![]() ![]() You can get to the Tor settings by clicking “Network Settings” on the welcome screen, or by clicking the “⚙” icon in the bottom-right corner of the application, and then switch to the Tor Settings tab in the screen that appears. After you save any bridge settings, OnionShare will try to reconnect using those bridges. If you are uncomfortable with making a request that doesn’t go over the Tor network, you can click “Network Settings” (or the Settings icon in the bottom right corner, followed by the Tor Settings tab in the screen that appears), and manually configure bridges. Then Meek is stopped, and all further network requests happen over the Tor network. ![]() The use of Meek and non-torified network requests are limited only to making one or two requests to the Censorship Circumvention API. It’s important to note that the requests to the Censorship Circumvention API do not go over the Tor network (because if you could connect to Tor already, you wouldn’t need to connect to the API).Įven though it’s hard for an adversary to discover where the Meek request is going, this may still be risky for some users. If for some reason OnionShare fails to connect to the Censorship API itself, or if the API returns an error message, OnionShare will attempt to use the obfs4 built-in bridges. If the API does not find any bridges for your location, OnionShare will ask the API for “fallback” options, and then try to reconnect using those. If the Censorship Circumvention API finds bridges that it believes will suit you, OnionShare will try to reconnect to Tor using those bridges. How automatic censorship circumvention works If you choose “Manually select my country for bridge settings”, the Censorship API will find the bridges that suit the country that you specified. If you choose “Automatically determine my country from my IP address for bridge settings”, the Censorship Circumvention API will consider your IP address (yes, your real IP address) to determine what country you might reside in.īased on the country information, the API will try to automatically find bridges that suit your location. The Meek proxy hides the fact that you are trying to find a way to connect to Tor. OnionShare will temporarily use the Meek domain-fronting proxy to make a non-Tor connection from your computer to Tor’s Censorship Circumvention API. If your network provider is blocking access to the Tor network, you can hopefully still connect to a Tor bridge, which will then connect you to the Tor network, circumventing the censorship.īoth of these options use the Tor Project’s Censorship Circumvention API to provide you with bridge settings that should work for you. ![]() The other two options will attempt to automatically bypass censorship using Tor bridges. ![]() If you choose the “Try again without a bridge” option, OnionShare will retry connecting to Tor like normal, without attempting to bypass censorship. Manually select my country for bridge settings If this occurs, you will have these choices:Īutomatically determine my country from my IP address for bridge settings When you click “Connect to Tor”, if OnionShare fails to connect, it might be because Tor is censored in your country or on your local network. Or, if you want to manually configure Bridges or other Tor settings before you connect, you can click “Network Settings”. If there are no problems with your network, including any attempts to block your access to the Tor network, this should hopefully work the first time. You can click “Connect to Tor” to begin the connection process. If the connection fails, you can still try bridges or reconfigure Tor via the “Network Settings” button. This means that next time OnionShare starts, it will automatically connect with its Tor connection settings from the last session, instead of presenting you with the connection options. You can toggle on the switch “Connect to Tor automatically” before clicking “Connect to Tor”. When OnionShare starts, it will show you a screen asking you to connect to the Tor network. ![]()
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