Arche Twist

OperaTor 2.6 will not run with other Tor bundle software

Submitted by Anonymous on 15 May, 2008 - 19:09

OperaTor 2.6 checks to see if Tor is running before it will start up, and it will refuse to start if ANY Tor instance is running, even if the Tor instance is not related to OperaTor in any way. For example, I cannot run TorChat at the same time as OperaTor 2.6 because OperaTor will detect the bundled Tor instance that TorChat has started, and then OperaTor will refuse to run.

I may possibly be able to start OperaTor first, and start TorChat second, which might prevent OperaTor from detecting TorChat Tor and refusing to start.

TorChat uses nonstandard ports with it's bundled Tor instance, and so it should never cause a problem with OperaTor. To fix this, OperaTor needs to only detect Tor instances that may cause problems for OperaTor. If OperaTor's bundled Tor instance used it's own non-standard ports, then when starting up, OperaTor can check to see if any of the running Tor instances respond to OperaTor's signalling on it's special Tor ports. If none of the running Tor instances respond, then OperaTor can assume they are not going to cause a problem if OperaTor starts up it's own instance of Tor.

Will look into that.

Submitted by archetwist on 29 May, 2008 - 23:25.

Will look into that.

2.7-test

Submitted by archetwist on 2 June, 2008 - 19:06.

Here is a test version of an upcoming release: 2.7-test.

The link is no longer active. Please download the newer version.

  1. Instead of forcing a user to close an already running instance of Polipo/Tor OperaTor now asks what to do (it is possible to ignore the warning).
  2. In the operator.ini file there is a new variable, DisableWarnings. When set to 1 it permanently disables the warning messages.

Please, leave a comment about this version.

problem solved. Since I like

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 14 June, 2008 - 17:15.

problem solved. Since I like your OperaTor better than any other portable browser (even OperaUSB, which is nice), I can now run one instance for Tor only, and another instance for non-Tor! I worship you, this is so awesome I could pee myself.

It's great to read such a

Submitted by archetwist on 15 June, 2008 - 17:05.

It's great to read such a positive feedback. I could never forgive myself if you peed yourself though ;-) .

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