TOR as HTTP proxy instead SOCKS

Question

I want to try and use TOR as HTTP proxy, and not SOCKS proxy.
I have issues, where the destination blocks SOCKS and I want to try to check it with HTTP proxy instead.

I did not find any solution for running tor as HTTP proxy.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to add HTTPTunnelPort 9080 line in your /etc/tor/torrc file.

After that you'll have localhost:9080 socket open and you can set http_proxy=http://localhost:9080 environment variable to tell applications to use it.