Accessing Tor .onion URLs via HttpClient with .NET6
In .NET6, there is built-in support for SOCKS4/5 proxies! This means you can install the Tor service and without anything else, access any
.onion URL with plain HttpClient:using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
var http = new HttpClient(new HttpClientHandler
{
Proxy = new WebProxy("socks5://127.0.0.1:1338")
});
Console.WriteLine(await http.GetStringAsync("https://bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion"));
NOTE: I could not get this to work with gRPC, which requires HTTP/2.
You can get the daily .NET6 SDK installer permalinks from:
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Windows (x64) | |
Windows (x86) | |
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