control-spec.txt 81 KB

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576777879808182838485868788899091929394959697989910010110210310410510610710810911011111211311411511611711811912012112212312412512612712812913013113213313413513613713813914014114214314414514614714814915015115215315415515615715815916016116216316416516616716816917017117217317417517617717817918018118218318418518618718818919019119219319419519619719819920020120220320420520620720820921021121221321421521621721821922022122222322422522622722822923023123223323423523623723823924024124224324424524624724824925025125225325425525625725825926026126226326426526626726826927027127227327427527627727827928028128228328428528628728828929029129229329429529629729829930030130230330430530630730830931031131231331431531631731831932032132232332432532632732832933033133233333433533633733833934034134234334434534634734834935035135235335435535635735835936036136236336436536636736836937037137237337437537637737837938038138238338438538638738838939039139239339439539639739839940040140240340440540640740840941041141241341441541641741841942042142242342442542642742842943043143243343443543643743843944044144244344444544644744844945045145245345445545645745845946046146246346446546646746846947047147247347447547647747847948048148248348448548648748848949049149249349449549649749849950050150250350450550650750850951051151251351451551651751851952052152252352452552652752852953053153253353453553653753853954054154254354454554654754854955055155255355455555655755855956056156256356456556656756856957057157257357457557657757857958058158258358458558658758858959059159259359459559659759859960060160260360460560660760860961061161261361461561661761861962062162262362462562662762862963063163263363463563663763863964064164264364464564664764864965065165265365465565665765865966066166266366466566666766866967067167267367467567667767867968068168268368468568668768868969069169269369469569669769869970070170270370470570670770870971071171271371471571671771871972072172272372472572672772872973073173273373473573673773873974074174274374474574674774874975075175275375475575675775875976076176276376476576676776876977077177277377477577677777877978078178278378478578678778878979079179279379479579679779879980080180280380480580680780880981081181281381481581681781881982082182282382482582682782882983083183283383483583683783883984084184284384484584684784884985085185285385485585685785885986086186286386486586686786886987087187287387487587687787887988088188288388488588688788888989089189289389489589689789889990090190290390490590690790890991091191291391491591691791891992092192292392492592692792892993093193293393493593693793893994094194294394494594694794894995095195295395495595695795895996096196296396496596696796896997097197297397497597697797897998098198298398498598698798898999099199299399499599699799899910001001100210031004100510061007100810091010101110121013101410151016101710181019102010211022102310241025102610271028102910301031103210331034103510361037103810391040104110421043104410451046104710481049105010511052105310541055105610571058105910601061106210631064106510661067106810691070107110721073107410751076107710781079108010811082108310841085108610871088108910901091109210931094109510961097109810991100110111021103110411051106110711081109111011111112111311141115111611171118111911201121112211231124112511261127112811291130113111321133113411351136113711381139114011411142114311441145114611471148114911501151115211531154115511561157115811591160116111621163116411651166116711681169117011711172117311741175117611771178117911801181118211831184118511861187118811891190119111921193119411951196119711981199120012011202120312041205120612071208120912101211121212131214121512161217121812191220122112221223122412251226122712281229123012311232123312341235123612371238123912401241124212431244124512461247124812491250125112521253125412551256125712581259126012611262126312641265126612671268126912701271127212731274127512761277127812791280128112821283128412851286128712881289129012911292129312941295129612971298129913001301130213031304130513061307130813091310131113121313131413151316131713181319132013211322132313241325132613271328132913301331133213331334133513361337133813391340134113421343134413451346134713481349135013511352135313541355135613571358135913601361136213631364136513661367136813691370137113721373137413751376137713781379138013811382138313841385138613871388138913901391139213931394139513961397139813991400140114021403140414051406140714081409141014111412141314141415141614171418141914201421142214231424142514261427142814291430143114321433143414351436143714381439144014411442144314441445144614471448144914501451145214531454145514561457145814591460146114621463146414651466146714681469147014711472147314741475147614771478147914801481148214831484148514861487148814891490149114921493149414951496149714981499150015011502150315041505150615071508150915101511151215131514151515161517151815191520152115221523152415251526152715281529153015311532153315341535153615371538153915401541154215431544154515461547154815491550155115521553155415551556155715581559156015611562156315641565156615671568156915701571157215731574157515761577157815791580158115821583158415851586158715881589159015911592159315941595159615971598159916001601160216031604160516061607160816091610161116121613161416151616161716181619162016211622162316241625162616271628162916301631163216331634163516361637163816391640164116421643164416451646164716481649165016511652165316541655165616571658165916601661166216631664166516661667166816691670167116721673167416751676167716781679168016811682168316841685168616871688168916901691169216931694169516961697169816991700170117021703170417051706170717081709171017111712171317141715171617171718171917201721172217231724172517261727172817291730173117321733173417351736173717381739174017411742174317441745174617471748174917501751175217531754175517561757175817591760176117621763176417651766176717681769177017711772177317741775177617771778177917801781178217831784178517861787178817891790179117921793179417951796179717981799180018011802180318041805180618071808180918101811181218131814181518161817181818191820182118221823182418251826182718281829183018311832183318341835183618371838183918401841184218431844184518461847184818491850185118521853185418551856185718581859186018611862186318641865186618671868186918701871187218731874187518761877187818791880188118821883188418851886188718881889189018911892189318941895189618971898189919001901190219031904190519061907190819091910191119121913191419151916191719181919192019211922192319241925192619271928192919301931193219331934193519361937193819391940194119421943194419451946194719481949195019511952195319541955195619571958195919601961196219631964196519661967196819691970197119721973197419751976197719781979198019811982198319841985198619871988198919901991199219931994199519961997
  1. TC: A Tor control protocol (Version 1)
  2. 0. Scope
  3. This document describes an implementation-specific protocol that is used
  4. for other programs (such as frontend user-interfaces) to communicate with a
  5. locally running Tor process. It is not part of the Tor onion routing
  6. protocol.
  7. This protocol replaces version 0 of TC, which is now deprecated. For
  8. reference, TC is described in "control-spec-v0.txt". Implementors are
  9. recommended to avoid using TC directly, but instead to use a library that
  10. can easily be updated to use the newer protocol. (Version 0 is used by Tor
  11. versions 0.1.0.x; the protocol in this document only works with Tor
  12. versions in the 0.1.1.x series and later.)
  13. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL
  14. NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
  15. "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
  16. RFC 2119.
  17. 1. Protocol outline
  18. TC is a bidirectional message-based protocol. It assumes an underlying
  19. stream for communication between a controlling process (the "client"
  20. or "controller") and a Tor process (or "server"). The stream may be
  21. implemented via TCP, TLS-over-TCP, a Unix-domain socket, or so on,
  22. but it must provide reliable in-order delivery. For security, the
  23. stream should not be accessible by untrusted parties.
  24. In TC, the client and server send typed messages to each other over the
  25. underlying stream. The client sends "commands" and the server sends
  26. "replies".
  27. By default, all messages from the server are in response to messages from
  28. the client. Some client requests, however, will cause the server to send
  29. messages to the client indefinitely far into the future. Such
  30. "asynchronous" replies are marked as such.
  31. Servers respond to messages in the order messages are received.
  32. 2. Message format
  33. 2.1. Description format
  34. The message formats listed below use ABNF as described in RFC 2234.
  35. The protocol itself is loosely based on SMTP (see RFC 2821).
  36. We use the following nonterminals from RFC 2822: atom, qcontent
  37. We define the following general-use nonterminals:
  38. String = DQUOTE *qcontent DQUOTE
  39. There are explicitly no limits on line length. All 8-bit characters are
  40. permitted unless explicitly disallowed.
  41. Wherever CRLF is specified to be accepted from the controller, Tor MAY also
  42. accept LF. Tor, however, MUST NOT generate LF instead of CRLF.
  43. Controllers SHOULD always send CRLF.
  44. 2.2. Commands from controller to Tor
  45. Command = Keyword Arguments CRLF / "+" Keyword Arguments CRLF Data
  46. Keyword = 1*ALPHA
  47. Arguments = *(SP / VCHAR)
  48. Specific commands and their arguments are described below in section 3.
  49. 2.3. Replies from Tor to the controller
  50. Reply = SyncReply / AsyncReply
  51. SyncReply = *(MidReplyLine / DataReplyLine) EndReplyLine
  52. AsyncReply = *(MidReplyLine / DataReplyLine) EndReplyLine
  53. MidReplyLine = StatusCode "-" ReplyLine
  54. DataReplyLine = StatusCode "+" ReplyLine Data
  55. EndReplyLine = StatusCode SP ReplyLine
  56. ReplyLine = [ReplyText] CRLF
  57. ReplyText = XXXX
  58. StatusCode = 3DIGIT
  59. Specific replies are mentioned below in section 3, and described more fully
  60. in section 4.
  61. [Compatibility note: versions of Tor before 0.2.0.3-alpha sometimes
  62. generate AsyncReplies of the form "*(MidReplyLine / DataReplyLine)".
  63. This is incorrect, but controllers that need to work with these
  64. versions of Tor should be prepared to get multi-line AsyncReplies with
  65. the final line (usually "650 OK") omitted.]
  66. 2.4. General-use tokens
  67. ; CRLF means, "the ASCII Carriage Return character (decimal value 13)
  68. ; followed by the ASCII Linefeed character (decimal value 10)."
  69. CRLF = CR LF
  70. ; How a controller tells Tor about a particular OR. There are four
  71. ; possible formats:
  72. ; $Fingerprint -- The router whose identity key hashes to the fingerprint.
  73. ; This is the preferred way to refer to an OR.
  74. ; $Fingerprint~Nickname -- The router whose identity key hashes to the
  75. ; given fingerprint, but only if the router has the given nickname.
  76. ; $Fingerprint=Nickname -- The router whose identity key hashes to the
  77. ; given fingerprint, but only if the router is Named and has the given
  78. ; nickname.
  79. ; Nickname -- The Named router with the given nickname, or, if no such
  80. ; router exists, any router whose nickname matches the one given.
  81. ; This is not a safe way to refer to routers, since Named status
  82. ; could under some circumstances change over time.
  83. ;
  84. ; The tokens that implement the above follow:
  85. ServerSpec = LongName / Nickname
  86. LongName = Fingerprint [ ( "=" / "~" ) Nickname ]
  87. Fingerprint = "$" 40*HEXDIG
  88. NicknameChar = "a"-"z" / "A"-"Z" / "0" - "9"
  89. Nickname = 1*19 NicknameChar
  90. ; What follows is an outdated way to refer to ORs.
  91. ; Feature VERBOSE_NAMES replaces ServerID with LongName in events and
  92. ; GETINFO results. VERBOSE_NAMES can be enabled starting in Tor version
  93. ; 0.1.2.2-alpha and it is always-on in 0.2.2.1-alpha and later.
  94. ServerID = Nickname / Fingerprint
  95. ; Unique identifiers for streams or circuits. Currently, Tor only
  96. ; uses digits, but this may change
  97. StreamID = 1*16 IDChar
  98. CircuitID = 1*16 IDChar
  99. IDChar = ALPHA / DIGIT
  100. Address = ip4-address / ip6-address / hostname (XXXX Define these)
  101. ; A "Data" section is a sequence of octets concluded by the terminating
  102. ; sequence CRLF "." CRLF. The terminating sequence may not appear in the
  103. ; body of the data. Leading periods on lines in the data are escaped with
  104. ; an additional leading period as in RFC 2821 section 4.5.2.
  105. Data = *DataLine "." CRLF
  106. DataLine = CRLF / "." 1*LineItem CRLF / NonDotItem *LineItem CRLF
  107. LineItem = NonCR / 1*CR NonCRLF
  108. NonDotItem = NonDotCR / 1*CR NonCRLF
  109. 3. Commands
  110. All commands are case-insensitive, but most keywords are case-sensitive.
  111. 3.1. SETCONF
  112. Change the value of one or more configuration variables. The syntax is:
  113. "SETCONF" 1*(SP keyword ["=" value]) CRLF
  114. value = String / QuotedString
  115. Tor behaves as though it had just read each of the key-value pairs
  116. from its configuration file. Keywords with no corresponding values have
  117. their configuration values reset to 0 or NULL (use RESETCONF if you want
  118. to set it back to its default). SETCONF is all-or-nothing: if there
  119. is an error in any of the configuration settings, Tor sets none of them.
  120. Tor responds with a "250 configuration values set" reply on success.
  121. If some of the listed keywords can't be found, Tor replies with a
  122. "552 Unrecognized option" message. Otherwise, Tor responds with a
  123. "513 syntax error in configuration values" reply on syntax error, or a
  124. "553 impossible configuration setting" reply on a semantic error.
  125. When a configuration option takes multiple values, or when multiple
  126. configuration keys form a context-sensitive group (see GETCONF below), then
  127. setting _any_ of the options in a SETCONF command is taken to reset all of
  128. the others. For example, if two ORBindAddress values are configured, and a
  129. SETCONF command arrives containing a single ORBindAddress value, the new
  130. command's value replaces the two old values.
  131. Sometimes it is not possible to change configuration options solely by
  132. issuing a series of SETCONF commands, because the value of one of the
  133. configuration options depends on the value of another which has not yet
  134. been set. Such situations can be overcome by setting multiple configuration
  135. options with a single SETCONF command (e.g. SETCONF ORPort=443
  136. ORListenAddress=9001).
  137. 3.2. RESETCONF
  138. Remove all settings for a given configuration option entirely, assign
  139. its default value (if any), and then assign the String provided.
  140. Typically the String is left empty, to simply set an option back to
  141. its default. The syntax is:
  142. "RESETCONF" 1*(SP keyword ["=" String]) CRLF
  143. Otherwise it behaves like SETCONF above.
  144. 3.3. GETCONF
  145. Request the value of a configuration variable. The syntax is:
  146. "GETCONF" 1*(SP keyword) CRLF
  147. If all of the listed keywords exist in the Tor configuration, Tor replies
  148. with a series of reply lines of the form:
  149. 250 keyword=value
  150. If any option is set to a 'default' value semantically different from an
  151. empty string, Tor may reply with a reply line of the form:
  152. 250 keyword
  153. Value may be a raw value or a quoted string. Tor will try to use
  154. unquoted values except when the value could be misinterpreted through
  155. not being quoted.
  156. If some of the listed keywords can't be found, Tor replies with a
  157. "552 unknown configuration keyword" message.
  158. If an option appears multiple times in the configuration, all of its
  159. key-value pairs are returned in order.
  160. Some options are context-sensitive, and depend on other options with
  161. different keywords. These cannot be fetched directly. Currently there
  162. is only one such option: clients should use the "HiddenServiceOptions"
  163. virtual keyword to get all HiddenServiceDir, HiddenServicePort,
  164. HiddenServiceNodes, and HiddenServiceExcludeNodes option settings.
  165. 3.4. SETEVENTS
  166. Request the server to inform the client about interesting events. The
  167. syntax is:
  168. "SETEVENTS" [SP "EXTENDED"] *(SP EventCode) CRLF
  169. EventCode = "CIRC" / "STREAM" / "ORCONN" / "BW" / "DEBUG" /
  170. "INFO" / "NOTICE" / "WARN" / "ERR" / "NEWDESC" / "ADDRMAP" /
  171. "AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS" / "DESCCHANGED" / "STATUS_GENERAL" /
  172. "STATUS_CLIENT" / "STATUS_SERVER" / "GUARD" / "NS" / "STREAM_BW" /
  173. "CLIENTS_SEEN" / "NEWCONSENSUS" / "BUILDTIMEOUT_SET" / "SIGNAL"
  174. Any events *not* listed in the SETEVENTS line are turned off; thus, sending
  175. SETEVENTS with an empty body turns off all event reporting.
  176. The server responds with a "250 OK" reply on success, and a "552
  177. Unrecognized event" reply if one of the event codes isn't recognized. (On
  178. error, the list of active event codes isn't changed.)
  179. If the flag string "EXTENDED" is provided, Tor may provide extra
  180. information with events for this connection; see 4.1 for more information.
  181. NOTE: All events on a given connection will be provided in extended format,
  182. or none.
  183. NOTE: "EXTENDED" is only supported in Tor 0.1.1.9-alpha or later.
  184. Each event is described in more detail in Section 4.1.
  185. 3.5. AUTHENTICATE
  186. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  187. "AUTHENTICATE" [ SP 1*HEXDIG / QuotedString ] CRLF
  188. The server responds with "250 OK" on success or "515 Bad authentication" if
  189. the authentication cookie is incorrect. Tor closes the connection on an
  190. authentication failure.
  191. The format of the 'cookie' is implementation-dependent; see 5.1 below for
  192. information on how the standard Tor implementation handles it.
  193. Before the client has authenticated, no command other than PROTOCOLINFO,
  194. AUTHENTICATE, or QUIT is valid. If the controller sends any other command,
  195. or sends a malformed command, or sends an unsuccessful AUTHENTICATE
  196. command, or sends PROTOCOLINFO more than once, Tor sends an error reply and
  197. closes the connection.
  198. To prevent some cross-protocol attacks, the AUTHENTICATE command is still
  199. required even if all authentication methods in Tor are disabled. In this
  200. case, the controller should just send "AUTHENTICATE" CRLF.
  201. (Versions of Tor before 0.1.2.16 and 0.2.0.4-alpha did not close the
  202. connection after an authentication failure.)
  203. 3.6. SAVECONF
  204. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  205. "SAVECONF" CRLF
  206. Instructs the server to write out its config options into its torrc. Server
  207. returns "250 OK" if successful, or "551 Unable to write configuration
  208. to disk" if it can't write the file or some other error occurs.
  209. See also the "getinfo config-text" command, if the controller wants
  210. to write the torrc file itself.
  211. 3.7. SIGNAL
  212. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  213. "SIGNAL" SP Signal CRLF
  214. Signal = "RELOAD" / "SHUTDOWN" / "DUMP" / "DEBUG" / "HALT" /
  215. "HUP" / "INT" / "USR1" / "USR2" / "TERM" / "NEWNYM" /
  216. "CLEARDNSCACHE"
  217. The meaning of the signals are:
  218. RELOAD -- Reload: reload config items, refetch directory. (like HUP)
  219. SHUTDOWN -- Controlled shutdown: if server is an OP, exit immediately.
  220. If it's an OR, close listeners and exit after 30 seconds.
  221. (like INT)
  222. DUMP -- Dump stats: log information about open connections and
  223. circuits. (like USR1)
  224. DEBUG -- Debug: switch all open logs to loglevel debug. (like USR2)
  225. HALT -- Immediate shutdown: clean up and exit now. (like TERM)
  226. CLEARDNSCACHE -- Forget the client-side cached IPs for all hostnames.
  227. NEWNYM -- Switch to clean circuits, so new application requests
  228. don't share any circuits with old ones. Also clears
  229. the client-side DNS cache. (Tor MAY rate-limit its
  230. response to this signal.)
  231. The server responds with "250 OK" if the signal is recognized (or simply
  232. closes the socket if it was asked to close immediately), or "552
  233. Unrecognized signal" if the signal is unrecognized.
  234. 3.8. MAPADDRESS
  235. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  236. "MAPADDRESS" 1*(Address "=" Address SP) CRLF
  237. The first address in each pair is an "original" address; the second is a
  238. "replacement" address. The client sends this message to the server in
  239. order to tell it that future SOCKS requests for connections to the original
  240. address should be replaced with connections to the specified replacement
  241. address. If the addresses are well-formed, and the server is able to
  242. fulfill the request, the server replies with a 250 message:
  243. 250-OldAddress1=NewAddress1
  244. 250 OldAddress2=NewAddress2
  245. containing the source and destination addresses. If request is
  246. malformed, the server replies with "512 syntax error in command
  247. argument". If the server can't fulfill the request, it replies with
  248. "451 resource exhausted".
  249. The client may decline to provide a body for the original address, and
  250. instead send a special null address ("0.0.0.0" for IPv4, "::0" for IPv6, or
  251. "." for hostname), signifying that the server should choose the original
  252. address itself, and return that address in the reply. The server
  253. should ensure that it returns an element of address space that is unlikely
  254. to be in actual use. If there is already an address mapped to the
  255. destination address, the server may reuse that mapping.
  256. If the original address is already mapped to a different address, the old
  257. mapping is removed. If the original address and the destination address
  258. are the same, the server removes any mapping in place for the original
  259. address.
  260. Example:
  261. C: MAPADDRESS 0.0.0.0=torproject.org 1.2.3.4=tor.freehaven.net
  262. S: 250-127.192.10.10=torproject.org
  263. S: 250 1.2.3.4=tor.freehaven.net
  264. {Note: This feature is designed to be used to help Tor-ify applications
  265. that need to use SOCKS4 or hostname-less SOCKS5. There are three
  266. approaches to doing this:
  267. 1. Somehow make them use SOCKS4a or SOCKS5-with-hostnames instead.
  268. 2. Use tor-resolve (or another interface to Tor's resolve-over-SOCKS
  269. feature) to resolve the hostname remotely. This doesn't work
  270. with special addresses like x.onion or x.y.exit.
  271. 3. Use MAPADDRESS to map an IP address to the desired hostname, and then
  272. arrange to fool the application into thinking that the hostname
  273. has resolved to that IP.
  274. This functionality is designed to help implement the 3rd approach.}
  275. Mappings set by the controller last until the Tor process exits:
  276. they never expire. If the controller wants the mapping to last only
  277. a certain time, then it must explicitly un-map the address when that
  278. time has elapsed.
  279. 3.9. GETINFO
  280. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is as for GETCONF:
  281. "GETINFO" 1*(SP keyword) CRLF
  282. one or more NL-terminated strings. The server replies with an INFOVALUE
  283. message, or a 551 or 552 error.
  284. Unlike GETCONF, this message is used for data that are not stored in the Tor
  285. configuration file, and that may be longer than a single line. On success,
  286. one ReplyLine is sent for each requested value, followed by a final 250 OK
  287. ReplyLine. If a value fits on a single line, the format is:
  288. 250-keyword=value
  289. If a value must be split over multiple lines, the format is:
  290. 250+keyword=
  291. value
  292. .
  293. Recognized keys and their values include:
  294. "version" -- The version of the server's software, including the name
  295. of the software. (example: "Tor 0.0.9.4")
  296. "config-file" -- The location of Tor's configuration file ("torrc").
  297. "config-text" -- The contents that Tor would write if you send it
  298. a SAVECONF command, so the controller can write the file to
  299. disk itself. [First implemented in 0.2.2.7-alpha.]
  300. ["exit-policy/prepend" -- The default exit policy lines that Tor will
  301. *prepend* to the ExitPolicy config option.
  302. -- Never implemented. Useful?]
  303. "exit-policy/default" -- The default exit policy lines that Tor will
  304. *append* to the ExitPolicy config option.
  305. "desc/id/<OR identity>" or "desc/name/<OR nickname>" -- the latest
  306. server descriptor for a given OR, NUL-terminated.
  307. "desc-annotations/id/<OR identity>" -- outputs the annotations string
  308. (source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc) for the corresponding
  309. descriptor. [First implemented in 0.2.0.13-alpha.]
  310. "extra-info/digest/<digest>" -- the extrainfo document whose digest (in
  311. hex) is <digest>. Only available if we're downloading extra-info
  312. documents.
  313. "ns/id/<OR identity>" or "ns/name/<OR nickname>" -- the latest router
  314. status info (v2 directory style) for a given OR. Router status
  315. info is as given in
  316. dir-spec.txt, and reflects the current beliefs of this Tor about the
  317. router in question. Like directory clients, controllers MUST
  318. tolerate unrecognized flags and lines. The published date and
  319. descriptor digest are those believed to be best by this Tor,
  320. not necessarily those for a descriptor that Tor currently has.
  321. [First implemented in 0.1.2.3-alpha.]
  322. "ns/all" -- Router status info (v2 directory style) for all ORs we
  323. have an opinion about, joined by newlines. [First implemented
  324. in 0.1.2.3-alpha.]
  325. "ns/purpose/<purpose>" -- Router status info (v2 directory style)
  326. for all ORs of this purpose. Mostly designed for /ns/purpose/bridge
  327. queries. [First implemented in 0.2.0.13-alpha.]
  328. "desc/all-recent" -- the latest server descriptor for every router that
  329. Tor knows about.
  330. "network-status" -- a space-separated list (v1 directory style)
  331. of all known OR identities. This is in the same format as the
  332. router-status line in v1 directories; see dir-spec-v1.txt section
  333. 3 for details. (If VERBOSE_NAMES is enabled, the output will
  334. not conform to dir-spec-v1.txt; instead, the result will be a
  335. space-separated list of LongName, each preceded by a "!" if it is
  336. believed to be not running.) This option is deprecated; use
  337. "ns/all" instead.
  338. "address-mappings/all"
  339. "address-mappings/config"
  340. "address-mappings/cache"
  341. "address-mappings/control" -- a \r\n-separated list of address
  342. mappings, each in the form of "from-address to-address expiry".
  343. The 'config' key returns those address mappings set in the
  344. configuration; the 'cache' key returns the mappings in the
  345. client-side DNS cache; the 'control' key returns the mappings set
  346. via the control interface; the 'all' target returns the mappings
  347. set through any mechanism.
  348. Expiry is formatted as with ADDRMAP events, except that "expiry" is
  349. always a time in GMT or the string "NEVER"; see section 4.1.7.
  350. First introduced in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
  351. "addr-mappings/*" -- as for address-mappings/*, but without the
  352. expiry portion of the value. Use of this value is deprecated
  353. since 0.2.0.3-alpha; use address-mappings instead.
  354. "address" -- the best guess at our external IP address. If we
  355. have no guess, return a 551 error. (Added in 0.1.2.2-alpha)
  356. "fingerprint" -- the contents of the fingerprint file that Tor
  357. writes as a server, or a 551 if we're not a server currently.
  358. (Added in 0.1.2.3-alpha)
  359. "circuit-status"
  360. A series of lines as for a circuit status event. Each line is of
  361. the form:
  362. CircuitID SP CircStatus [SP Path] CRLF
  363. "stream-status"
  364. A series of lines as for a stream status event. Each is of the form:
  365. StreamID SP StreamStatus SP CircID SP Target CRLF
  366. "orconn-status"
  367. A series of lines as for an OR connection status event. In Tor
  368. 0.1.2.2-alpha with feature VERBOSE_NAMES enabled and in Tor
  369. 0.2.2.1-alpha and later by default, each line is of the form:
  370. LongName SP ORStatus CRLF
  371. In Tor versions 0.1.2.2-alpha through 0.2.2.1-alpha with feature
  372. VERBOSE_NAMES turned off and before version 0.1.2.2-alpha, each line
  373. is of the form:
  374. ServerID SP ORStatus CRLF
  375. "entry-guards"
  376. A series of lines listing the currently chosen entry guards, if any.
  377. In Tor 0.1.2.2-alpha with feature VERBOSE_NAMES enabled and in Tor
  378. 0.2.2.1-alpha and later by default, each line is of the form:
  379. LongName SP Status [SP ISOTime] CRLF
  380. In Tor versions 0.1.2.2-alpha through 0.2.2.1-alpha with feature
  381. VERBOSE_NAMES turned off and before version 0.1.2.2-alpha, each line
  382. is of the form:
  383. ServerID2 SP Status [SP ISOTime] CRLF
  384. ServerID2 = Nickname / 40*HEXDIG
  385. The definition of Status is the same for both:
  386. Status = "up" / "never-connected" / "down" /
  387. "unusable" / "unlisted"
  388. [From 0.1.1.4-alpha to 0.1.1.10-alpha, entry-guards was called
  389. "helper-nodes". Tor still supports calling "helper-nodes", but it
  390. is deprecated and should not be used.]
  391. [Older versions of Tor (before 0.1.2.x-final) generated 'down' instead
  392. of unlisted/unusable. Current Tors never generate 'down'.]
  393. [XXXX ServerID2 differs from ServerID in not prefixing fingerprints
  394. with a $. This is an implementation error. It would be nice to add
  395. the $ back in if we can do so without breaking compatibility.]
  396. "traffic/read" -- Total bytes read (downloaded).
  397. "traffic/written" -- Total bytes written (uploaded).
  398. "accounting/enabled"
  399. "accounting/hibernating"
  400. "accounting/bytes"
  401. "accounting/bytes-left"
  402. "accounting/interval-start"
  403. "accounting/interval-wake"
  404. "accounting/interval-end"
  405. Information about accounting status. If accounting is enabled,
  406. "enabled" is 1; otherwise it is 0. The "hibernating" field is "hard"
  407. if we are accepting no data; "soft" if we're accepting no new
  408. connections, and "awake" if we're not hibernating at all. The "bytes"
  409. and "bytes-left" fields contain (read-bytes SP write-bytes), for the
  410. start and the rest of the interval respectively. The 'interval-start'
  411. and 'interval-end' fields are the borders of the current interval; the
  412. 'interval-wake' field is the time within the current interval (if any)
  413. where we plan[ned] to start being active. The times are GMT.
  414. "config/names"
  415. A series of lines listing the available configuration options. Each is
  416. of the form:
  417. OptionName SP OptionType [ SP Documentation ] CRLF
  418. OptionName = Keyword
  419. OptionType = "Integer" / "TimeInterval" / "TimeMsecInterval" /
  420. "DataSize" / "Float" / "Boolean" / "Time" / "CommaList" /
  421. "Dependant" / "Virtual" / "String" / "LineList"
  422. Documentation = Text
  423. "info/names"
  424. A series of lines listing the available GETINFO options. Each is of
  425. one of these forms:
  426. OptionName SP Documentation CRLF
  427. OptionPrefix SP Documentation CRLF
  428. OptionPrefix = OptionName "/*"
  429. "events/names"
  430. A space-separated list of all the events supported by this version of
  431. Tor's SETEVENTS.
  432. "features/names"
  433. A space-separated list of all the events supported by this version of
  434. Tor's USEFEATURE.
  435. "ip-to-country/*"
  436. Maps IP addresses to 2-letter country codes. For example,
  437. "GETINFO ip-to-country/18.0.0.1" should give "US".
  438. "next-circuit/IP:port"
  439. XXX todo.
  440. "process/pid" -- Process id belonging to the main tor process.
  441. "process/uid" -- User id running the tor process, -1 if unknown (this is
  442. unimplemented on Windows, returning -1).
  443. "process/user" -- Username under which the tor process is running,
  444. providing an empty string if none exists (this is unimplemented on
  445. Windows, returning an empty string).
  446. "process/descriptor-limit" -- Upper bound on the file descriptor limit, -1
  447. if unknown.
  448. "dir/status-vote/current/consensus" [added in Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha]
  449. "dir/status/authority"
  450. "dir/status/fp/<F>"
  451. "dir/status/fp/<F1>+<F2>+<F3>"
  452. "dir/status/all"
  453. "dir/server/fp/<F>"
  454. "dir/server/fp/<F1>+<F2>+<F3>"
  455. "dir/server/d/<D>"
  456. "dir/server/d/<D1>+<D2>+<D3>"
  457. "dir/server/authority"
  458. "dir/server/all"
  459. A series of lines listing directory contents, provided according to the
  460. specification for the URLs listed in Section 4.4 of dir-spec.txt. Note
  461. that Tor MUST NOT provide private information, such as descriptors for
  462. routers not marked as general-purpose. When asked for 'authority'
  463. information for which this Tor is not authoritative, Tor replies with
  464. an empty string.
  465. "status/circuit-established"
  466. "status/enough-dir-info"
  467. "status/good-server-descriptor"
  468. "status/accepted-server-descriptor"
  469. "status/..."
  470. These provide the current internal Tor values for various Tor
  471. states. See Section 4.1.10 for explanations. (Only a few of the
  472. status events are available as getinfo's currently. Let us know if
  473. you want more exposed.)
  474. "status/reachability-succeeded/or"
  475. 0 or 1, depending on whether we've found our ORPort reachable.
  476. "status/reachability-succeeded/dir"
  477. 0 or 1, depending on whether we've found our DirPort reachable.
  478. "status/reachability-succeeded"
  479. "OR=" ("0"/"1") SP "DIR=" ("0"/"1")
  480. Combines status/reachability-succeeded/*; controllers MUST ignore
  481. unrecognized elements in this entry.
  482. "status/bootstrap-phase"
  483. Returns the most recent bootstrap phase status event
  484. sent. Specifically, it returns a string starting with either
  485. "NOTICE BOOTSTRAP ..." or "WARN BOOTSTRAP ...". Controllers should
  486. use this getinfo when they connect or attach to Tor to learn its
  487. current bootstrap state.
  488. "status/version/recommended"
  489. List of currently recommended versions.
  490. "status/version/current"
  491. Status of the current version. One of: new, old, unrecommended,
  492. recommended, new in series, obsolete, unknown.
  493. "status/clients-seen"
  494. A summary of which countries we've seen clients from recently,
  495. formatted the same as the CLIENTS_SEEN status event described in
  496. Section 4.1.14. This GETINFO option is currently available only
  497. for bridge relays.
  498. Examples:
  499. C: GETINFO version desc/name/moria1
  500. S: 250+desc/name/moria=
  501. S: [Descriptor for moria]
  502. S: .
  503. S: 250-version=Tor 0.1.1.0-alpha-cvs
  504. S: 250 OK
  505. 3.10. EXTENDCIRCUIT
  506. Sent from the client to the server. The format is:
  507. "EXTENDCIRCUIT" SP CircuitID
  508. [SP ServerSpec *("," ServerSpec)
  509. SP "purpose=" Purpose] CRLF
  510. This request takes one of two forms: either the CircuitID is zero, in
  511. which case it is a request for the server to build a new circuit,
  512. or the CircuitID is nonzero, in which case it is a request for the
  513. server to extend an existing circuit with that ID according to the
  514. specified path.
  515. If the CircuitID is 0, the controller has the option of providing
  516. a path for Tor to use to build the circuit. If it does not provide
  517. a path, Tor will select one automatically from high capacity nodes
  518. according to path-spec.txt.
  519. If CircuitID is 0 and "purpose=" is specified, then the circuit's
  520. purpose is set. Two choices are recognized: "general" and
  521. "controller". If not specified, circuits are created as "general".
  522. If the request is successful, the server sends a reply containing a
  523. message body consisting of the CircuitID of the (maybe newly created)
  524. circuit. The syntax is "250" SP "EXTENDED" SP CircuitID CRLF.
  525. 3.11. SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
  526. Sent from the client to the server. The format is:
  527. "SETCIRCUITPURPOSE" SP CircuitID SP Purpose CRLF
  528. This changes the circuit's purpose. See EXTENDCIRCUIT above for details.
  529. 3.12. SETROUTERPURPOSE
  530. Sent from the client to the server. The format is:
  531. "SETROUTERPURPOSE" SP NicknameOrKey SP Purpose CRLF
  532. This changes the descriptor's purpose. See +POSTDESCRIPTOR below
  533. for details.
  534. NOTE: This command was disabled and made obsolete as of Tor
  535. 0.2.0.8-alpha. It doesn't exist anymore, and is listed here only for
  536. historical interest.
  537. 3.13. ATTACHSTREAM
  538. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  539. "ATTACHSTREAM" SP StreamID SP CircuitID [SP "HOP=" HopNum] CRLF
  540. This message informs the server that the specified stream should be
  541. associated with the specified circuit. Each stream may be associated with
  542. at most one circuit, and multiple streams may share the same circuit.
  543. Streams can only be attached to completed circuits (that is, circuits that
  544. have sent a circuit status 'BUILT' event or are listed as built in a
  545. GETINFO circuit-status request).
  546. If the circuit ID is 0, responsibility for attaching the given stream is
  547. returned to Tor.
  548. If HOP=HopNum is specified, Tor will choose the HopNumth hop in the
  549. circuit as the exit node, rather than the last node in the circuit.
  550. Hops are 1-indexed; generally, it is not permitted to attach to hop 1.
  551. Tor responds with "250 OK" if it can attach the stream, 552 if the circuit
  552. or stream didn't exist, or 551 if the stream couldn't be attached for
  553. another reason.
  554. {Implementation note: Tor will close unattached streams by itself,
  555. roughly two minutes after they are born. Let the developers know if
  556. that turns out to be a problem.}
  557. {Implementation note: By default, Tor automatically attaches streams to
  558. circuits itself, unless the configuration variable
  559. "__LeaveStreamsUnattached" is set to "1". Attempting to attach streams
  560. via TC when "__LeaveStreamsUnattached" is false may cause a race between
  561. Tor and the controller, as both attempt to attach streams to circuits.}
  562. {Implementation note: You can try to attachstream to a stream that
  563. has already sent a connect or resolve request but hasn't succeeded
  564. yet, in which case Tor will detach the stream from its current circuit
  565. before proceeding with the new attach request.}
  566. 3.14. POSTDESCRIPTOR
  567. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  568. "+POSTDESCRIPTOR" [SP "purpose=" Purpose] [SP "cache=" Cache]
  569. CRLF Descriptor CRLF "." CRLF
  570. This message informs the server about a new descriptor. If Purpose is
  571. specified, it must be either "general", "controller", or "bridge",
  572. else we return a 552 error. The default is "general".
  573. If Cache is specified, it must be either "no" or "yes", else we
  574. return a 552 error. If Cache is not specified, Tor will decide for
  575. itself whether it wants to cache the descriptor, and controllers
  576. must not rely on its choice.
  577. The descriptor, when parsed, must contain a number of well-specified
  578. fields, including fields for its nickname and identity.
  579. If there is an error in parsing the descriptor, the server must send a
  580. "554 Invalid descriptor" reply. If the descriptor is well-formed but
  581. the server chooses not to add it, it must reply with a 251 message
  582. whose body explains why the server was not added. If the descriptor
  583. is added, Tor replies with "250 OK".
  584. 3.15. REDIRECTSTREAM
  585. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  586. "REDIRECTSTREAM" SP StreamID SP Address [SP Port] CRLF
  587. Tells the server to change the exit address on the specified stream. If
  588. Port is specified, changes the destination port as well. No remapping
  589. is performed on the new provided address.
  590. To be sure that the modified address will be used, this event must be sent
  591. after a new stream event is received, and before attaching this stream to
  592. a circuit.
  593. Tor replies with "250 OK" on success.
  594. 3.16. CLOSESTREAM
  595. Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is:
  596. "CLOSESTREAM" SP StreamID SP Reason *(SP Flag) CRLF
  597. Tells the server to close the specified stream. The reason should be one
  598. of the Tor RELAY_END reasons given in tor-spec.txt, as a decimal. Flags is
  599. not used currently; Tor servers SHOULD ignore unrecognized flags. Tor may
  600. hold the stream open for a while to flush any data that is pending.
  601. Tor replies with "250 OK" on success, or a 512 if there aren't enough
  602. arguments, or a 552 if it doesn't recognize the StreamID or reason.
  603. 3.17. CLOSECIRCUIT
  604. The syntax is:
  605. CLOSECIRCUIT SP CircuitID *(SP Flag) CRLF
  606. Flag = "IfUnused"
  607. Tells the server to close the specified circuit. If "IfUnused" is
  608. provided, do not close the circuit unless it is unused.
  609. Other flags may be defined in the future; Tor SHOULD ignore unrecognized
  610. flags.
  611. Tor replies with "250 OK" on success, or a 512 if there aren't enough
  612. arguments, or a 552 if it doesn't recognize the CircuitID.
  613. 3.18. QUIT
  614. Tells the server to hang up on this controller connection. This command
  615. can be used before authenticating.
  616. 3.19. USEFEATURE
  617. Adding additional features to the control protocol sometimes will break
  618. backwards compatibility. Initially such features are added into Tor and
  619. disabled by default. USEFEATURE can enable these additional features.
  620. The syntax is:
  621. "USEFEATURE" *(SP FeatureName) CRLF
  622. FeatureName = 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT / "_" / "-")
  623. Feature names are case-insensitive.
  624. Once enabled, a feature stays enabled for the duration of the connection
  625. to the controller. A new connection to the controller must be opened to
  626. disable an enabled feature.
  627. Features are a forward-compatibility mechanism; each feature will eventually
  628. become a standard part of the control protocol. Once a feature becomes part
  629. of the protocol, it is always-on. Each feature documents the version it was
  630. introduced as a feature and the version in which it became part of the
  631. protocol.
  632. Tor will ignore a request to use any feature that is always-on. Tor will give
  633. a 552 error in response to an unrecognized feature.
  634. EXTENDED_EVENTS
  635. Same as passing 'EXTENDED' to SETEVENTS; this is the preferred way to
  636. request the extended event syntax.
  637. This feature was first introduced in 0.1.2.3-alpha. It is always-on
  638. and part of the protocol in Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha and later.
  639. VERBOSE_NAMES
  640. Replaces ServerID with LongName in events and GETINFO results. LongName
  641. provides a Fingerprint for all routers, an indication of Named status,
  642. and a Nickname if one is known. LongName is strictly more informative
  643. than ServerID, which only provides either a Fingerprint or a Nickname.
  644. This feature was first introduced in 0.1.2.2-alpha. It is always-on and
  645. part of the protocol in Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha and later.
  646. 3.20. RESOLVE
  647. The syntax is
  648. "RESOLVE" *Option *Address CRLF
  649. Option = "mode=reverse"
  650. Address = a hostname or IPv4 address
  651. This command launches a remote hostname lookup request for every specified
  652. request (or reverse lookup if "mode=reverse" is specified). Note that the
  653. request is done in the background: to see the answers, your controller will
  654. need to listen for ADDRMAP events; see 4.1.7 below.
  655. [Added in Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha]
  656. 3.21. PROTOCOLINFO
  657. The syntax is:
  658. "PROTOCOLINFO" *(SP PIVERSION) CRLF
  659. The server reply format is:
  660. "250-PROTOCOLINFO" SP PIVERSION CRLF *InfoLine "250 OK" CRLF
  661. InfoLine = AuthLine / VersionLine / OtherLine
  662. AuthLine = "250-AUTH" SP "METHODS=" AuthMethod *(",")AuthMethod
  663. *(SP "COOKIEFILE=" AuthCookieFile) CRLF
  664. VersionLine = "250-VERSION" SP "Tor=" TorVersion [SP Arguments] CRLF
  665. AuthMethod =
  666. "NULL" / ; No authentication is required
  667. "HASHEDPASSWORD" / ; A controller must supply the original password
  668. "COOKIE" / ; A controller must supply the contents of a cookie
  669. AuthCookieFile = QuotedString
  670. TorVersion = QuotedString
  671. OtherLine = "250-" Keyword [SP Arguments] CRLF
  672. PIVERSION: 1*DIGIT
  673. Tor MAY give its InfoLines in any order; controllers MUST ignore InfoLines
  674. with keywords they do not recognize. Controllers MUST ignore extraneous
  675. data on any InfoLine.
  676. PIVERSION is there in case we drastically change the syntax one day. For
  677. now it should always be "1". Controllers MAY provide a list of the
  678. protocolinfo versions they support; Tor MAY select a version that the
  679. controller does not support.
  680. AuthMethod is used to specify one or more control authentication
  681. methods that Tor currently accepts.
  682. AuthCookieFile specifies the absolute path and filename of the
  683. authentication cookie that Tor is expecting and is provided iff
  684. the METHODS field contains the method "COOKIE". Controllers MUST handle
  685. escape sequences inside this string.
  686. The VERSION line contains the Tor version.
  687. [Unlike other commands besides AUTHENTICATE, PROTOCOLINFO may be used (but
  688. only once!) before AUTHENTICATE.]
  689. [PROTOCOLINFO was not supported before Tor 0.2.0.5-alpha.]
  690. 4. Replies
  691. Reply codes follow the same 3-character format as used by SMTP, with the
  692. first character defining a status, the second character defining a
  693. subsystem, and the third designating fine-grained information.
  694. The TC protocol currently uses the following first characters:
  695. 2yz Positive Completion Reply
  696. The command was successful; a new request can be started.
  697. 4yz Temporary Negative Completion reply
  698. The command was unsuccessful but might be reattempted later.
  699. 5yz Permanent Negative Completion Reply
  700. The command was unsuccessful; the client should not try exactly
  701. that sequence of commands again.
  702. 6yz Asynchronous Reply
  703. Sent out-of-order in response to an earlier SETEVENTS command.
  704. The following second characters are used:
  705. x0z Syntax
  706. Sent in response to ill-formed or nonsensical commands.
  707. x1z Protocol
  708. Refers to operations of the Tor Control protocol.
  709. x5z Tor
  710. Refers to actual operations of Tor system.
  711. The following codes are defined:
  712. 250 OK
  713. 251 Operation was unnecessary
  714. [Tor has declined to perform the operation, but no harm was done.]
  715. 451 Resource exhausted
  716. 500 Syntax error: protocol
  717. 510 Unrecognized command
  718. 511 Unimplemented command
  719. 512 Syntax error in command argument
  720. 513 Unrecognized command argument
  721. 514 Authentication required
  722. 515 Bad authentication
  723. 550 Unspecified Tor error
  724. 551 Internal error
  725. [Something went wrong inside Tor, so that the client's
  726. request couldn't be fulfilled.]
  727. 552 Unrecognized entity
  728. [A configuration key, a stream ID, circuit ID, event,
  729. mentioned in the command did not actually exist.]
  730. 553 Invalid configuration value
  731. [The client tried to set a configuration option to an
  732. incorrect, ill-formed, or impossible value.]
  733. 554 Invalid descriptor
  734. 555 Unmanaged entity
  735. 650 Asynchronous event notification
  736. Unless specified to have specific contents, the human-readable messages
  737. in error replies should not be relied upon to match those in this document.
  738. 4.1. Asynchronous events
  739. These replies can be sent after a corresponding SETEVENTS command has been
  740. received. They will not be interleaved with other Reply elements, but they
  741. can appear between a command and its corresponding reply. For example,
  742. this sequence is possible:
  743. C: SETEVENTS CIRC
  744. S: 250 OK
  745. C: GETCONF SOCKSPORT ORPORT
  746. S: 650 CIRC 1000 EXTENDED moria1,moria2
  747. S: 250-SOCKSPORT=9050
  748. S: 250 ORPORT=0
  749. But this sequence is disallowed:
  750. C: SETEVENTS CIRC
  751. S: 250 OK
  752. C: GETCONF SOCKSPORT ORPORT
  753. S: 250-SOCKSPORT=9050
  754. S: 650 CIRC 1000 EXTENDED moria1,moria2
  755. S: 250 ORPORT=0
  756. Clients MUST tolerate more arguments in an asynchonous reply than
  757. expected, and MUST tolerate more lines in an asynchronous reply than
  758. expected. For instance, a client that expects a CIRC message like:
  759. 650 CIRC 1000 EXTENDED moria1,moria2
  760. must tolerate:
  761. 650-CIRC 1000 EXTENDED moria1,moria2 0xBEEF
  762. 650-EXTRAMAGIC=99
  763. 650 ANONYMITY=high
  764. If clients ask for extended events, then each event line as specified below
  765. will be followed by additional extensions. Additional lines will be of the
  766. form
  767. "650" ("-"/" ") KEYWORD ["=" ARGUMENTS] CRLF
  768. Additional arguments will be of the form
  769. SP KEYWORD ["=" ( QuotedString / * NonSpDquote ) ]
  770. Such clients MUST tolerate lines with keywords they do not recognize.
  771. 4.1.1. Circuit status changed
  772. The syntax is:
  773. "650" SP "CIRC" SP CircuitID SP CircStatus [SP Path]
  774. [SP "REASON=" Reason [SP "REMOTE_REASON=" Reason]] CRLF
  775. CircStatus =
  776. "LAUNCHED" / ; circuit ID assigned to new circuit
  777. "BUILT" / ; all hops finished, can now accept streams
  778. "EXTENDED" / ; one more hop has been completed
  779. "FAILED" / ; circuit closed (was not built)
  780. "CLOSED" ; circuit closed (was built)
  781. Path = LongName *("," LongName)
  782. ; In Tor versions 0.1.2.2-alpha through 0.2.2.1-alpha with feature
  783. ; VERBOSE_NAMES turned off and before version 0.1.2.2-alpha, Path
  784. ; is as follows:
  785. Path = ServerID *("," ServerID)
  786. Reason = "NONE" / "TORPROTOCOL" / "INTERNAL" / "REQUESTED" /
  787. "HIBERNATING" / "RESOURCELIMIT" / "CONNECTFAILED" /
  788. "OR_IDENTITY" / "OR_CONN_CLOSED" / "TIMEOUT" /
  789. "FINISHED" / "DESTROYED" / "NOPATH" / "NOSUCHSERVICE" /
  790. "MEASUREMENT_EXPIRED"
  791. The path is provided only when the circuit has been extended at least one
  792. hop.
  793. The "REASON" field is provided only for FAILED and CLOSED events, and only
  794. if extended events are enabled (see 3.19). Clients MUST accept reasons
  795. not listed above. Reasons are as given in tor-spec.txt, except for:
  796. NOPATH (Not enough nodes to make circuit)
  797. The "REMOTE_REASON" field is provided only when we receive a DESTROY or
  798. TRUNCATE cell, and only if extended events are enabled. It contains the
  799. actual reason given by the remote OR for closing the circuit. Clients MUST
  800. accept reasons not listed above. Reasons are as listed in tor-spec.txt.
  801. 4.1.2. Stream status changed
  802. The syntax is:
  803. "650" SP "STREAM" SP StreamID SP StreamStatus SP CircID SP Target
  804. [SP "REASON=" Reason [ SP "REMOTE_REASON=" Reason ]]
  805. [SP "SOURCE=" Source] [ SP "SOURCE_ADDR=" Address ":" Port ]
  806. [SP "PURPOSE=" Purpose]
  807. CRLF
  808. StreamStatus =
  809. "NEW" / ; New request to connect
  810. "NEWRESOLVE" / ; New request to resolve an address
  811. "REMAP" / ; Address re-mapped to another
  812. "SENTCONNECT" / ; Sent a connect cell along a circuit
  813. "SENTRESOLVE" / ; Sent a resolve cell along a circuit
  814. "SUCCEEDED" / ; Received a reply; stream established
  815. "FAILED" / ; Stream failed and not retriable
  816. "CLOSED" / ; Stream closed
  817. "DETACHED" ; Detached from circuit; still retriable
  818. Target = Address ":" Port
  819. The circuit ID designates which circuit this stream is attached to. If
  820. the stream is unattached, the circuit ID "0" is given.
  821. Reason = "MISC" / "RESOLVEFAILED" / "CONNECTREFUSED" /
  822. "EXITPOLICY" / "DESTROY" / "DONE" / "TIMEOUT" /
  823. "NOROUTE" / "HIBERNATING" / "INTERNAL"/ "RESOURCELIMIT" /
  824. "CONNRESET" / "TORPROTOCOL" / "NOTDIRECTORY" / "END"
  825. The "REASON" field is provided only for FAILED, CLOSED, and DETACHED
  826. events, and only if extended events are enabled (see 3.19). Clients MUST
  827. accept reasons not listed above. Reasons are as given in tor-spec.txt,
  828. except for:
  829. END (We received a RELAY_END cell from the other side of this
  830. stream.)
  831. [XXXX document more. -NM]
  832. The "REMOTE_REASON" field is provided only when we receive a RELAY_END
  833. cell, and only if extended events are enabled. It contains the actual
  834. reason given by the remote OR for closing the stream. Clients MUST accept
  835. reasons not listed above. Reasons are as listed in tor-spec.txt.
  836. "REMAP" events include a Source if extended events are enabled:
  837. Source = "CACHE" / "EXIT"
  838. Clients MUST accept sources not listed above. "CACHE" is given if
  839. the Tor client decided to remap the address because of a cached
  840. answer, and "EXIT" is given if the remote node we queried gave us
  841. the new address as a response.
  842. The "SOURCE_ADDR" field is included with NEW and NEWRESOLVE events if
  843. extended events are enabled. It indicates the address and port
  844. that requested the connection, and can be (e.g.) used to look up the
  845. requesting program.
  846. Purpose = "DIR_FETCH" / "UPLOAD_DESC" / "DNS_REQUEST" /
  847. "USER" / "DIRPORT_TEST"
  848. The "PURPOSE" field is provided only for NEW and NEWRESOLVE events, and
  849. only if extended events are enabled (see 3.19). Clients MUST accept
  850. purposes not listed above.
  851. 4.1.3. OR Connection status changed
  852. The syntax is:
  853. "650" SP "ORCONN" SP (LongName / Target) SP ORStatus [ SP "REASON="
  854. Reason ] [ SP "NCIRCS=" NumCircuits ] CRLF
  855. ORStatus = "NEW" / "LAUNCHED" / "CONNECTED" / "FAILED" / "CLOSED"
  856. ; In Tor versions 0.1.2.2-alpha through 0.2.2.1-alpha with feature
  857. ; VERBOSE_NAMES turned off and before version 0.1.2.2-alpha, OR
  858. ; Connection is as follows:
  859. "650" SP "ORCONN" SP (ServerID / Target) SP ORStatus [ SP "REASON="
  860. Reason ] [ SP "NCIRCS=" NumCircuits ] CRLF
  861. NEW is for incoming connections, and LAUNCHED is for outgoing
  862. connections. CONNECTED means the TLS handshake has finished (in
  863. either direction). FAILED means a connection is being closed that
  864. hasn't finished its handshake, and CLOSED is for connections that
  865. have handshaked.
  866. A LongName or ServerID is specified unless it's a NEW connection, in
  867. which case we don't know what server it is yet, so we use Address:Port.
  868. If extended events are enabled (see 3.19), optional reason and
  869. circuit counting information is provided for CLOSED and FAILED
  870. events.
  871. Reason = "MISC" / "DONE" / "CONNECTREFUSED" /
  872. "IDENTITY" / "CONNECTRESET" / "TIMEOUT" / "NOROUTE" /
  873. "IOERROR" / "RESOURCELIMIT"
  874. NumCircuits counts both established and pending circuits.
  875. 4.1.4. Bandwidth used in the last second
  876. The syntax is:
  877. "650" SP "BW" SP BytesRead SP BytesWritten *(SP Type "=" Num) CRLF
  878. BytesRead = 1*DIGIT
  879. BytesWritten = 1*DIGIT
  880. Type = "DIR" / "OR" / "EXIT" / "APP" / ...
  881. Num = 1*DIGIT
  882. BytesRead and BytesWritten are the totals. [In a future Tor version,
  883. we may also include a breakdown of the connection types that used
  884. bandwidth this second (not implemented yet).]
  885. 4.1.5. Log messages
  886. The syntax is:
  887. "650" SP Severity SP ReplyText CRLF
  888. or
  889. "650+" Severity CRLF Data 650 SP "OK" CRLF
  890. Severity = "DEBUG" / "INFO" / "NOTICE" / "WARN"/ "ERR"
  891. 4.1.6. New descriptors available
  892. Syntax:
  893. "650" SP "NEWDESC" 1*(SP LongName) CRLF
  894. ; In Tor versions 0.1.2.2-alpha through 0.2.2.1-alpha with feature
  895. ; VERBOSE_NAMES turned off and before version 0.1.2.2-alpha, it
  896. ; is as follows:
  897. "650" SP "NEWDESC" 1*(SP ServerID) CRLF
  898. 4.1.7. New Address mapping
  899. Syntax:
  900. "650" SP "ADDRMAP" SP Address SP NewAddress SP Expiry
  901. [SP Error] SP GMTExpiry CRLF
  902. NewAddress = Address / "<error>"
  903. Expiry = DQUOTE ISOTime DQUOTE / "NEVER"
  904. Error = "error=" ErrorCode
  905. ErrorCode = XXXX
  906. GMTExpiry = "EXPIRES=" DQUOTE IsoTime DQUOTE
  907. Error and GMTExpiry are only provided if extended events are enabled.
  908. Expiry is expressed as the local time (rather than GMT). This is a bug,
  909. left in for backward compatibility; new code should look at GMTExpiry
  910. instead.
  911. These events are generated when a new address mapping is entered in the
  912. cache, or when the answer for a RESOLVE command is found.
  913. 4.1.8. Descriptors uploaded to us in our role as authoritative dirserver
  914. Syntax:
  915. "650" "+" "AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS" CRLF Action CRLF Message CRLF
  916. Descriptor CRLF "." CRLF "650" SP "OK" CRLF
  917. Action = "ACCEPTED" / "DROPPED" / "REJECTED"
  918. Message = Text
  919. 4.1.9. Our descriptor changed
  920. Syntax:
  921. "650" SP "DESCCHANGED" CRLF
  922. [First added in 0.1.2.2-alpha.]
  923. 4.1.10. Status events
  924. Status events (STATUS_GENERAL, STATUS_CLIENT, and STATUS_SERVER) are sent
  925. based on occurrences in the Tor process pertaining to the general state of
  926. the program. Generally, they correspond to log messages of severity Notice
  927. or higher. They differ from log messages in that their format is a
  928. specified interface.
  929. Syntax:
  930. "650" SP StatusType SP StatusSeverity SP StatusAction
  931. [SP StatusArguments] CRLF
  932. StatusType = "STATUS_GENERAL" / "STATUS_CLIENT" / "STATUS_SERVER"
  933. StatusSeverity = "NOTICE" / "WARN" / "ERR"
  934. StatusAction = 1*ALPHA
  935. StatusArguments = StatusArgument *(SP StatusArgument)
  936. StatusArgument = StatusKeyword '=' StatusValue
  937. StatusKeyword = 1*(ALNUM / "_")
  938. StatusValue = 1*(ALNUM / '_') / QuotedString
  939. Action is a string, and Arguments is a series of keyword=value
  940. pairs on the same line. Values may be space-terminated strings,
  941. or quoted strings.
  942. These events are always produced with EXTENDED_EVENTS and
  943. VERBOSE_NAMES; see the explanations in the USEFEATURE section
  944. for details.
  945. Controllers MUST tolerate unrecognized actions, MUST tolerate
  946. unrecognized arguments, MUST tolerate missing arguments, and MUST
  947. tolerate arguments that arrive in any order.
  948. Each event description below is accompanied by a recommendation for
  949. controllers. These recommendations are suggestions only; no controller
  950. is required to implement them.
  951. Compatibility note: versions of Tor before 0.2.0.22-rc incorrectly
  952. generated "STATUS_SERVER" as "STATUS_SEVER". To be compatible with those
  953. versions, tools should accept both.
  954. Actions for STATUS_GENERAL events can be as follows:
  955. CLOCK_JUMPED
  956. "TIME=NUM"
  957. Tor spent enough time without CPU cycles that it has closed all
  958. its circuits and will establish them anew. This typically
  959. happens when a laptop goes to sleep and then wakes up again. It
  960. also happens when the system is swapping so heavily that Tor is
  961. starving. The "time" argument specifies the number of seconds Tor
  962. thinks it was unconscious for (or alternatively, the number of
  963. seconds it went back in time).
  964. This status event is sent as NOTICE severity normally, but WARN
  965. severity if Tor is acting as a server currently.
  966. {Recommendation for controller: ignore it, since we don't really
  967. know what the user should do anyway. Hm.}
  968. DANGEROUS_VERSION
  969. "CURRENT=version"
  970. "REASON=NEW/OBSOLETE/UNRECOMMENDED"
  971. "RECOMMENDED=\"version, version, ...\""
  972. Tor has found that directory servers don't recommend its version of
  973. the Tor software. RECOMMENDED is a comma-and-space-separated string
  974. of Tor versions that are recommended. REASON is NEW if this version
  975. of Tor is newer than any recommended version, OBSOLETE if
  976. this version of Tor is older than any recommended version, and
  977. UNRECOMMENDED if some recommended versions of Tor are newer and
  978. some are older than this version. (The "OBSOLETE" reason was called
  979. "OLD" from Tor 0.1.2.3-alpha up to and including 0.2.0.12-alpha.)
  980. {Controllers may want to suggest that the user upgrade OLD or
  981. UNRECOMMENDED versions. NEW versions may be known-insecure, or may
  982. simply be development versions.}
  983. TOO_MANY_CONNECTIONS
  984. "CURRENT=NUM"
  985. Tor has reached its ulimit -n or whatever the native limit is on file
  986. descriptors or sockets. CURRENT is the number of sockets Tor
  987. currently has open. The user should really do something about
  988. this. The "current" argument shows the number of connections currently
  989. open.
  990. {Controllers may recommend that the user increase the limit, or
  991. increase it for them. Recommendations should be phrased in an
  992. OS-appropriate way and automated when possible.}
  993. BUG
  994. "REASON=STRING"
  995. Tor has encountered a situation that its developers never expected,
  996. and the developers would like to learn that it happened. Perhaps
  997. the controller can explain this to the user and encourage her to
  998. file a bug report?
  999. {Controllers should log bugs, but shouldn't annoy the user in case a
  1000. bug appears frequently.}
  1001. CLOCK_SKEW
  1002. SKEW="+" / "-" SECONDS
  1003. MIN_SKEW="+" / "-" SECONDS.
  1004. SOURCE="DIRSERV:" IP ":" Port /
  1005. "NETWORKSTATUS:" IP ":" Port /
  1006. "OR:" IP ":" Port /
  1007. "CONSENSUS"
  1008. If "SKEW" is present, it's an estimate of how far we are from the
  1009. time declared in the source. (In other words, if we're an hour in
  1010. the past, the value is -3600.) "MIN_SKEW" is present, it's a lower
  1011. bound. If the source is a DIRSERV, we got the current time from a
  1012. connection to a dirserver. If the source is a NETWORKSTATUS, we
  1013. decided we're skewed because we got a v2 networkstatus from far in
  1014. the future. If the source is OR, the skew comes from a NETINFO
  1015. cell from a connection to another relay. If the source is
  1016. CONSENSUS, we decided we're skewed because we got a networkstatus
  1017. consensus from the future.
  1018. {Tor should send this message to controllers when it thinks the
  1019. skew is so high that it will interfere with proper Tor operation.
  1020. Controllers shouldn't blindly adjust the clock, since the more
  1021. accurate source of skew info (DIRSERV) is currently
  1022. unauthenticated.}
  1023. BAD_LIBEVENT
  1024. "METHOD=" libevent method
  1025. "VERSION=" libevent version
  1026. "BADNESS=" "BROKEN" / "BUGGY" / "SLOW"
  1027. "RECOVERED=" "NO" / "YES"
  1028. Tor knows about bugs in using the configured event method in this
  1029. version of libevent. "BROKEN" libevents won't work at all;
  1030. "BUGGY" libevents might work okay; "SLOW" libevents will work
  1031. fine, but not quickly. If "RECOVERED" is YES, Tor managed to
  1032. switch to a more reliable (but probably slower!) libevent method.
  1033. {Controllers may want to warn the user if this event occurs, though
  1034. generally it's the fault of whoever built the Tor binary and there's
  1035. not much the user can do besides upgrade libevent or upgrade the
  1036. binary.}
  1037. DIR_ALL_UNREACHABLE
  1038. Tor believes that none of the known directory servers are
  1039. reachable -- this is most likely because the local network is
  1040. down or otherwise not working, and might help to explain for the
  1041. user why Tor appears to be broken.
  1042. {Controllers may want to warn the user if this event occurs; further
  1043. action is generally not possible.}
  1044. CONSENSUS_ARRIVED
  1045. Tor has received and validated a new consensus networkstatus.
  1046. (This event can be delayed a little while after the consensus
  1047. is received, if Tor needs to fetch certificates.)
  1048. Actions for STATUS_CLIENT events can be as follows:
  1049. BOOTSTRAP
  1050. "PROGRESS=" num
  1051. "TAG=" Keyword
  1052. "SUMMARY=" String
  1053. ["WARNING=" String
  1054. "REASON=" Keyword
  1055. "COUNT=" num
  1056. "RECOMMENDATION=" Keyword
  1057. ]
  1058. Tor has made some progress at establishing a connection to the
  1059. Tor network, fetching directory information, or making its first
  1060. circuit; or it has encountered a problem while bootstrapping. This
  1061. status event is especially useful for users with slow connections
  1062. or with connectivity problems.
  1063. "Progress" gives a number between 0 and 100 for how far through
  1064. the bootstrapping process we are. "Summary" is a string that can
  1065. be displayed to the user to describe the *next* task that Tor
  1066. will tackle, i.e., the task it is working on after sending the
  1067. status event. "Tag" is a string that controllers can use to
  1068. recognize bootstrap phases, if they want to do something smarter
  1069. than just blindly displaying the summary string; see Section 5
  1070. for the current tags that Tor issues.
  1071. The StatusSeverity describes whether this is a normal bootstrap
  1072. phase (severity notice) or an indication of a bootstrapping
  1073. problem (severity warn).
  1074. For bootstrap problems, we include the same progress, tag, and
  1075. summary values as we would for a normal bootstrap event, but we
  1076. also include "warning", "reason", "count", and "recommendation"
  1077. key/value combos. The "count" number tells how many bootstrap
  1078. problems there have been so far at this phase. The "reason"
  1079. string lists one of the reasons allowed in the ORCONN event. The
  1080. "warning" argument string with any hints Tor has to offer about
  1081. why it's having troubles bootstrapping.
  1082. The "reason" values are long-term-stable controller-facing tags to
  1083. identify particular issues in a bootstrapping step. The warning
  1084. strings, on the other hand, are human-readable. Controllers
  1085. SHOULD NOT rely on the format of any warning string. Currently
  1086. the possible values for "recommendation" are either "ignore" or
  1087. "warn" -- if ignore, the controller can accumulate the string in
  1088. a pile of problems to show the user if the user asks; if warn,
  1089. the controller should alert the user that Tor is pretty sure
  1090. there's a bootstrapping problem.
  1091. Currently Tor uses recommendation=ignore for the first
  1092. nine bootstrap problem reports for a given phase, and then
  1093. uses recommendation=warn for subsequent problems at that
  1094. phase. Hopefully this is a good balance between tolerating
  1095. occasional errors and reporting serious problems quickly.
  1096. ENOUGH_DIR_INFO
  1097. Tor now knows enough network-status documents and enough server
  1098. descriptors that it's going to start trying to build circuits now.
  1099. {Controllers may want to use this event to decide when to indicate
  1100. progress to their users, but should not interrupt the user's browsing
  1101. to tell them so.}
  1102. NOT_ENOUGH_DIR_INFO
  1103. We discarded expired statuses and router descriptors to fall
  1104. below the desired threshold of directory information. We won't
  1105. try to build any circuits until ENOUGH_DIR_INFO occurs again.
  1106. {Controllers may want to use this event to decide when to indicate
  1107. progress to their users, but should not interrupt the user's browsing
  1108. to tell them so.}
  1109. CIRCUIT_ESTABLISHED
  1110. Tor is able to establish circuits for client use. This event will
  1111. only be sent if we just built a circuit that changed our mind --
  1112. that is, prior to this event we didn't know whether we could
  1113. establish circuits.
  1114. {Suggested use: controllers can notify their users that Tor is
  1115. ready for use as a client once they see this status event. [Perhaps
  1116. controllers should also have a timeout if too much time passes and
  1117. this event hasn't arrived, to give tips on how to troubleshoot.
  1118. On the other hand, hopefully Tor will send further status events
  1119. if it can identify the problem.]}
  1120. CIRCUIT_NOT_ESTABLISHED
  1121. "REASON=" "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" / "DIR_ALL_UNREACHABLE" / "CLOCK_JUMPED"
  1122. We are no longer confident that we can build circuits. The "reason"
  1123. keyword provides an explanation: which other status event type caused
  1124. our lack of confidence.
  1125. {Controllers may want to use this event to decide when to indicate
  1126. progress to their users, but should not interrupt the user's browsing
  1127. to do so.}
  1128. [Note: only REASON=CLOCK_JUMPED is implemented currently.]
  1129. DANGEROUS_PORT
  1130. "PORT=" port
  1131. "RESULT=" "REJECT" / "WARN"
  1132. A stream was initiated to a port that's commonly used for
  1133. vulnerable-plaintext protocols. If the Result is "reject", we
  1134. refused the connection; whereas if it's "warn", we allowed it.
  1135. {Controllers should warn their users when this occurs, unless they
  1136. happen to know that the application using Tor is in fact doing so
  1137. correctly (e.g., because it is part of a distributed bundle). They
  1138. might also want some sort of interface to let the user configure
  1139. their RejectPlaintextPorts and WarnPlaintextPorts config options.}
  1140. DANGEROUS_SOCKS
  1141. "PROTOCOL=" "SOCKS4" / "SOCKS5"
  1142. "ADDRESS=" IP:port
  1143. A connection was made to Tor's SOCKS port using one of the SOCKS
  1144. approaches that doesn't support hostnames -- only raw IP addresses.
  1145. If the client application got this address from gethostbyname(),
  1146. it may be leaking target addresses via DNS.
  1147. {Controllers should warn their users when this occurs, unless they
  1148. happen to know that the application using Tor is in fact doing so
  1149. correctly (e.g., because it is part of a distributed bundle).}
  1150. SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL
  1151. "DATA=string"
  1152. A connection was made to Tor's SOCKS port that tried to use it
  1153. for something other than the SOCKS protocol. Perhaps the user is
  1154. using Tor as an HTTP proxy? The DATA is the first few characters
  1155. sent to Tor on the SOCKS port.
  1156. {Controllers may want to warn their users when this occurs: it
  1157. indicates a misconfigured application.}
  1158. SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME
  1159. "HOSTNAME=QuotedString"
  1160. Some application gave us a funny-looking hostname. Perhaps
  1161. it is broken? In any case it won't work with Tor and the user
  1162. should know.
  1163. {Controllers may want to warn their users when this occurs: it
  1164. usually indicates a misconfigured application.}
  1165. Actions for STATUS_SERVER can be as follows:
  1166. EXTERNAL_ADDRESS
  1167. "ADDRESS=IP"
  1168. "HOSTNAME=NAME"
  1169. "METHOD=CONFIGURED/DIRSERV/RESOLVED/INTERFACE/GETHOSTNAME"
  1170. Our best idea for our externally visible IP has changed to 'IP'.
  1171. If 'HOSTNAME' is present, we got the new IP by resolving 'NAME'. If the
  1172. method is 'CONFIGURED', the IP was given verbatim as a configuration
  1173. option. If the method is 'RESOLVED', we resolved the Address
  1174. configuration option to get the IP. If the method is 'GETHOSTNAME',
  1175. we resolved our hostname to get the IP. If the method is 'INTERFACE',
  1176. we got the address of one of our network interfaces to get the IP. If
  1177. the method is 'DIRSERV', a directory server told us a guess for what
  1178. our IP might be.
  1179. {Controllers may want to record this info and display it to the user.}
  1180. CHECKING_REACHABILITY
  1181. "ORADDRESS=IP:port"
  1182. "DIRADDRESS=IP:port"
  1183. We're going to start testing the reachability of our external OR port
  1184. or directory port.
  1185. {This event could affect the controller's idea of server status, but
  1186. the controller should not interrupt the user to tell them so.}
  1187. REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED
  1188. "ORADDRESS=IP:port"
  1189. "DIRADDRESS=IP:port"
  1190. We successfully verified the reachability of our external OR port or
  1191. directory port (depending on which of ORADDRESS or DIRADDRESS is
  1192. given.)
  1193. {This event could affect the controller's idea of server status, but
  1194. the controller should not interrupt the user to tell them so.}
  1195. GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
  1196. We successfully uploaded our server descriptor to at least one
  1197. of the directory authorities, with no complaints.
  1198. {Originally, the goal of this event was to declare "every authority
  1199. has accepted the descriptor, so there will be no complaints
  1200. about it." But since some authorities might be offline, it's
  1201. harder to get certainty than we had thought. As such, this event
  1202. is equivalent to ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR below. Controllers
  1203. should just look at ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and should ignore
  1204. this event for now.}
  1205. SERVER_DESCRIPTOR_STATUS
  1206. "STATUS=" "LISTED" / "UNLISTED"
  1207. We just got a new networkstatus consensus, and whether we're in
  1208. it or not in it has changed. Specifically, status is "listed"
  1209. if we're listed in it but previous to this point we didn't know
  1210. we were listed in a consensus; and status is "unlisted" if we
  1211. thought we should have been listed in it (e.g. we were listed in
  1212. the last one), but we're not.
  1213. {Moving from listed to unlisted is not necessarily cause for
  1214. alarm. The relay might have failed a few reachability tests,
  1215. or the Internet might have had some routing problems. So this
  1216. feature is mainly to let relay operators know when their relay
  1217. has successfully been listed in the consensus.}
  1218. [Not implemented yet. We should do this in 0.2.2.x. -RD]
  1219. NAMESERVER_STATUS
  1220. "NS=addr"
  1221. "STATUS=" "UP" / "DOWN"
  1222. "ERR=" message
  1223. One of our nameservers has changed status.
  1224. {This event could affect the controller's idea of server status, but
  1225. the controller should not interrupt the user to tell them so.}
  1226. NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN
  1227. All of our nameservers have gone down.
  1228. {This is a problem; if it happens often without the nameservers
  1229. coming up again, the user needs to configure more or better
  1230. nameservers.}
  1231. DNS_HIJACKED
  1232. Our DNS provider is providing an address when it should be saying
  1233. "NOTFOUND"; Tor will treat the address as a synonym for "NOTFOUND".
  1234. {This is an annoyance; controllers may want to tell admins that their
  1235. DNS provider is not to be trusted.}
  1236. DNS_USELESS
  1237. Our DNS provider is giving a hijacked address instead of well-known
  1238. websites; Tor will not try to be an exit node.
  1239. {Controllers could warn the admin if the server is running as an
  1240. exit server: the admin needs to configure a good DNS server.
  1241. Alternatively, this happens a lot in some restrictive environments
  1242. (hotels, universities, coffeeshops) when the user hasn't registered.}
  1243. BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
  1244. "DIRAUTH=addr:port"
  1245. "REASON=string"
  1246. A directory authority rejected our descriptor. Possible reasons
  1247. include malformed descriptors, incorrect keys, highly skewed clocks,
  1248. and so on.
  1249. {Controllers should warn the admin, and try to cope if they can.}
  1250. ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
  1251. "DIRAUTH=addr:port"
  1252. A single directory authority accepted our descriptor.
  1253. // actually notice
  1254. {This event could affect the controller's idea of server status, but
  1255. the controller should not interrupt the user to tell them so.}
  1256. REACHABILITY_FAILED
  1257. "ORADDRESS=IP:port"
  1258. "DIRADDRESS=IP:port"
  1259. We failed to connect to our external OR port or directory port
  1260. successfully.
  1261. {This event could affect the controller's idea of server status. The
  1262. controller should warn the admin and suggest reasonable steps to take.}
  1263. 4.1.11. Our set of guard nodes has changed
  1264. Syntax:
  1265. "650" SP "GUARD" SP Type SP Name SP Status ... CRLF
  1266. Type = "ENTRY"
  1267. Name = The (possibly verbose) nickname of the guard affected.
  1268. Status = "NEW" | "UP" | "DOWN" | "BAD" | "GOOD" | "DROPPED"
  1269. [explain states. XXX]
  1270. 4.1.12. Network status has changed
  1271. Syntax:
  1272. "650" "+" "NS" CRLF 1*NetworkStatus "." CRLF "650" SP "OK" CRLF
  1273. The event is used whenever our local view of a relay status changes.
  1274. This happens when we get a new v3 consensus (in which case the entries
  1275. we see are a duplicate of what we see in the NEWCONSENSUS event,
  1276. below), but it also happens when we decide to mark a relay as up or
  1277. down in our local status, for example based on connection attempts.
  1278. [First added in 0.1.2.3-alpha]
  1279. 4.1.13. Bandwidth used on an application stream
  1280. The syntax is:
  1281. "650" SP "STREAM_BW" SP StreamID SP BytesWritten SP BytesRead CRLF
  1282. BytesWritten = 1*DIGIT
  1283. BytesRead = 1*DIGIT
  1284. BytesWritten and BytesRead are the number of bytes written and read
  1285. by the application since the last STREAM_BW event on this stream.
  1286. Note that from Tor's perspective, *reading* a byte on a stream means
  1287. that the application *wrote* the byte. That's why the order of "written"
  1288. vs "read" is opposite for stream_bw events compared to bw events.
  1289. These events are generated about once per second per stream; no events
  1290. are generated for streams that have not written or read. These events
  1291. apply only to streams entering Tor (such as on a SOCKSPort, TransPort,
  1292. or so on). They are not generated for exiting streams.
  1293. 4.1.14. Per-country client stats
  1294. The syntax is:
  1295. "650" SP "CLIENTS_SEEN" SP TimeStarted SP CountrySummary CRLF
  1296. We just generated a new summary of which countries we've seen clients
  1297. from recently. The controller could display this for the user, e.g.
  1298. in their "relay" configuration window, to give them a sense that they
  1299. are actually being useful.
  1300. Currently only bridge relays will receive this event, but once we figure
  1301. out how to sufficiently aggregate and sanitize the client counts on
  1302. main relays, we might start sending these events in other cases too.
  1303. TimeStarted is a quoted string indicating when the reported summary
  1304. counts from (in GMT).
  1305. The CountrySummary keyword has as its argument a comma-separated,
  1306. possibly empty set of "countrycode=count" pairs. For example (without
  1307. linebreak),
  1308. 650-CLIENTS_SEEN TimeStarted="2008-12-25 23:50:43"
  1309. CountrySummary=us=16,de=8,uk=8
  1310. 4.1.15. New consensus networkstatus has arrived.
  1311. The syntax is:
  1312. "650" "+" "NEWCONSENSUS" CRLF 1*NetworkStatus "." CRLF "650" SP
  1313. "OK" CRLF
  1314. A new consensus networkstatus has arrived. We include NS-style lines for
  1315. every relay in the consensus. NEWCONSENSUS is a separate event from the
  1316. NS event, because the list here represents every usable relay: so any
  1317. relay *not* mentioned in this list is implicitly no longer recommended.
  1318. [First added in 0.2.1.13-alpha]
  1319. 4.1.16. New circuit buildtime has been set.
  1320. The syntax is:
  1321. "650" SP "BUILDTIMEOUT_SET" SP Type SP "TOTAL_TIMES=" Total SP
  1322. "TIMEOUT_MS=" Timeout SP "XM=" Xm SP "ALPHA=" Alpha SP
  1323. "CUTOFF_QUANTILE=" Quantile SP "TIMEOUT_RATE=" TimeoutRate SP
  1324. "CLOSE_MS=" CloseTimeout SP "CLOSE_RATE=" CloseRate
  1325. CRLF
  1326. Type = "COMPUTED" / "RESET" / "SUSPENDED" / "DISCARD" / "RESUME"
  1327. Total = Integer count of timeouts stored
  1328. Timeout = Integer timeout in milliseconds
  1329. Xm = Estimated integer Pareto parameter Xm in milliseconds
  1330. Alpha = Estimated floating point Paredo paremter alpha
  1331. Quantile = Floating point CDF quantile cutoff point for this timeout
  1332. TimeoutRate = Floating point ratio of circuits that timeout
  1333. CloseTimeout = How long to keep measurement circs in milliseconds
  1334. CloseRate = Floating point ratio of measurement circuits that are closed
  1335. A new circuit build timeout time has been set. If Type is "COMPUTED",
  1336. Tor has computed the value based on historical data. If Type is "RESET",
  1337. initialization or drastic network changes have caused Tor to reset
  1338. the timeout back to the default, to relearn again. If Type is
  1339. "SUSPENDED", Tor has detected a loss of network connectivity and has
  1340. temporarily changed the timeout value to the default until the network
  1341. recovers. If type is "DISCARD", Tor has decided to discard timeout
  1342. values that likely happened while the network was down. If type is
  1343. "RESUME", Tor has decided to resume timeout calculation.
  1344. The Total value is the count of circuit build times Tor used in
  1345. computing this value. It is capped internally at the maximum number
  1346. of build times Tor stores (NCIRCUITS_TO_OBSERVE).
  1347. The Timeout itself is provided in milliseconds. Internally, Tor rounds
  1348. this value to the nearest second before using it.
  1349. [First added in 0.2.2.7-alpha]
  1350. 4.1.17. Signal received
  1351. The syntax is:
  1352. "650" SP "SIGNAL" SP Signal CRLF
  1353. Signal = "RELOAD" / "DUMP" / "DEBUG" / "NEWNYM" / "CLEARDNSCACHE"
  1354. A signal has been received and actions taken by Tor. The meaning of each
  1355. signal, and the mapping to Unix signals, is as defined in section 3.7.
  1356. Future versions of Tor MAY generate signals other than those listed here;
  1357. controllers MUST be able to accept them.
  1358. If Tor chose to ignore a signal (such as NEWNYM), this event will not be
  1359. sent. Note that some options (like ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP) may affect the
  1360. semantics of the signals here.
  1361. Note that the HALT (SIGTERM) and SHUTDOWN (SIGINT) signals do not currently
  1362. generate any event.
  1363. [First added in 0.2.3.1-alpha]
  1364. 5. Implementation notes
  1365. 5.1. Authentication
  1366. If the control port is open and no authentication operation is enabled, Tor
  1367. trusts any local user that connects to the control port. This is generally
  1368. a poor idea.
  1369. If the 'CookieAuthentication' option is true, Tor writes a "magic cookie"
  1370. file named "control_auth_cookie" into its data directory. To authenticate,
  1371. the controller must send the contents of this file, encoded in hexadecimal.
  1372. If the 'HashedControlPassword' option is set, it must contain the salted
  1373. hash of a secret password. The salted hash is computed according to the
  1374. S2K algorithm in RFC 2440 (OpenPGP), and prefixed with the s2k specifier.
  1375. This is then encoded in hexadecimal, prefixed by the indicator sequence
  1376. "16:". Thus, for example, the password 'foo' could encode to:
  1377. 16:660537E3E1CD49996044A3BF558097A981F539FEA2F9DA662B4626C1C2
  1378. ++++++++++++++++**^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  1379. salt hashed value
  1380. indicator
  1381. You can generate the salt of a password by calling
  1382. 'tor --hash-password <password>'
  1383. or by using the example code in the Python and Java controller libraries.
  1384. To authenticate under this scheme, the controller sends Tor the original
  1385. secret that was used to generate the password, either as a quoted string
  1386. or encoded in hexadecimal.
  1387. 5.2. Don't let the buffer get too big.
  1388. If you ask for lots of events, and 16MB of them queue up on the buffer,
  1389. the Tor process will close the socket.
  1390. 5.3. Backward compatibility with v0 control protocol.
  1391. The 'version 0' control protocol was replaced in Tor 0.1.1.x. Support
  1392. was removed in Tor 0.2.0.x. Every non-obsolete version of Tor now
  1393. supports the version 1 control protocol.
  1394. For backward compatibility with the "version 0" control protocol,
  1395. Tor used to check whether the third octet of the first command is zero.
  1396. (If it was, Tor assumed that version 0 is in use.)
  1397. This compatibility was removed in Tor 0.1.2.16 and 0.2.0.4-alpha.
  1398. 5.4. Tor config options for use by controllers
  1399. Tor provides a few special configuration options for use by controllers.
  1400. These options can be set and examined by the SETCONF and GETCONF commands,
  1401. but are not saved to disk by SAVECONF.
  1402. Generally, these options make Tor unusable by disabling a portion of Tor's
  1403. normal operations. Unless a controller provides replacement functionality
  1404. to fill this gap, Tor will not correctly handle user requests.
  1405. __AllDirOptionsPrivate
  1406. If true, Tor will try to launch all directory operations through
  1407. anonymous connections. (Ordinarily, Tor only tries to anonymize
  1408. requests related to hidden services.) This option will slow down
  1409. directory access, and may stop Tor from working entirely if it does not
  1410. yet have enough directory information to build circuits.
  1411. (Boolean. Default: "0".)
  1412. __DisablePredictedCircuits
  1413. If true, Tor will not launch preemptive "general-purpose" circuits for
  1414. streams to attach to. (It will still launch circuits for testing and
  1415. for hidden services.)
  1416. (Boolean. Default: "0".)
  1417. __LeaveStreamsUnattached
  1418. If true, Tor will not automatically attach new streams to circuits;
  1419. instead, the controller must attach them with ATTACHSTREAM. If the
  1420. controller does not attach the streams, their data will never be routed.
  1421. (Boolean. Default: "0".)
  1422. __HashedControlSessionPassword
  1423. As HashedControlPassword, but is not saved to the torrc file by
  1424. SAVECONF. Added in Tor 0.2.0.20-rc.
  1425. __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
  1426. If this option is true (the default), we reload the torrc from disk
  1427. every time we get a SIGHUP (from the controller or via a signal).
  1428. Otherwise, we don't. This option exists so that controllers can keep
  1429. their options from getting overwritten when a user sends Tor a HUP for
  1430. some other reason (for example, to rotate the logs).
  1431. (Boolean. Default: "1")
  1432. 5.5. Phases from the Bootstrap status event.
  1433. This section describes the various bootstrap phases currently reported
  1434. by Tor. Controllers should not assume that the percentages and tags
  1435. listed here will continue to match up, or even that the tags will stay
  1436. in the same order. Some phases might also be skipped (not reported)
  1437. if the associated bootstrap step is already complete, or if the phase
  1438. no longer is necessary. Only "starting" and "done" are guaranteed to
  1439. exist in all future versions.
  1440. Current Tor versions enter these phases in order, monotonically.
  1441. Future Tors MAY revisit earlier stages.
  1442. Phase 0:
  1443. tag=starting summary="Starting"
  1444. Tor starts out in this phase.
  1445. Phase 5:
  1446. tag=conn_dir summary="Connecting to directory mirror"
  1447. Tor sends this event as soon as Tor has chosen a directory mirror --
  1448. e.g. one of the authorities if bootstrapping for the first time or
  1449. after a long downtime, or one of the relays listed in its cached
  1450. directory information otherwise.
  1451. Tor will stay at this phase until it has successfully established
  1452. a TCP connection with some directory mirror. Problems in this phase
  1453. generally happen because Tor doesn't have a network connection, or
  1454. because the local firewall is dropping SYN packets.
  1455. Phase 10:
  1456. tag=handshake_dir summary="Finishing handshake with directory mirror"
  1457. This event occurs when Tor establishes a TCP connection with a relay used
  1458. as a directory mirror (or its https proxy if it's using one). Tor remains
  1459. in this phase until the TLS handshake with the relay is finished.
  1460. Problems in this phase generally happen because Tor's firewall is
  1461. doing more sophisticated MITM attacks on it, or doing packet-level
  1462. keyword recognition of Tor's handshake.
  1463. Phase 15:
  1464. tag=onehop_create summary="Establishing one-hop circuit for dir info"
  1465. Once TLS is finished with a relay, Tor will send a CREATE_FAST cell
  1466. to establish a one-hop circuit for retrieving directory information.
  1467. It will remain in this phase until it receives the CREATED_FAST cell
  1468. back, indicating that the circuit is ready.
  1469. Phase 20:
  1470. tag=requesting_status summary="Asking for networkstatus consensus"
  1471. Once we've finished our one-hop circuit, we will start a new stream
  1472. for fetching the networkstatus consensus. We'll stay in this phase
  1473. until we get the 'connected' relay cell back, indicating that we've
  1474. established a directory connection.
  1475. Phase 25:
  1476. tag=loading_status summary="Loading networkstatus consensus"
  1477. Once we've established a directory connection, we will start fetching
  1478. the networkstatus consensus document. This could take a while; this
  1479. phase is a good opportunity for using the "progress" keyword to indicate
  1480. partial progress.
  1481. This phase could stall if the directory mirror we picked doesn't
  1482. have a copy of the networkstatus consensus so we have to ask another,
  1483. or it does give us a copy but we don't find it valid.
  1484. Phase 40:
  1485. tag=loading_keys summary="Loading authority key certs"
  1486. Sometimes when we've finished loading the networkstatus consensus,
  1487. we find that we don't have all the authority key certificates for the
  1488. keys that signed the consensus. At that point we put the consensus we
  1489. fetched on hold and fetch the keys so we can verify the signatures.
  1490. Phase 45
  1491. tag=requesting_descriptors summary="Asking for relay descriptors"
  1492. Once we have a valid networkstatus consensus and we've checked all
  1493. its signatures, we start asking for relay descriptors. We stay in this
  1494. phase until we have received a 'connected' relay cell in response to
  1495. a request for descriptors.
  1496. Phase 50:
  1497. tag=loading_descriptors summary="Loading relay descriptors"
  1498. We will ask for relay descriptors from several different locations,
  1499. so this step will probably make up the bulk of the bootstrapping,
  1500. especially for users with slow connections. We stay in this phase until
  1501. we have descriptors for at least 1/4 of the usable relays listed in
  1502. the networkstatus consensus. This phase is also a good opportunity to
  1503. use the "progress" keyword to indicate partial steps.
  1504. Phase 80:
  1505. tag=conn_or summary="Connecting to entry guard"
  1506. Once we have a valid consensus and enough relay descriptors, we choose
  1507. some entry guards and start trying to build some circuits. This step
  1508. is similar to the "conn_dir" phase above; the only difference is
  1509. the context.
  1510. If a Tor starts with enough recent cached directory information,
  1511. its first bootstrap status event will be for the conn_or phase.
  1512. Phase 85:
  1513. tag=handshake_or summary="Finishing handshake with entry guard"
  1514. This phase is similar to the "handshake_dir" phase, but it gets reached
  1515. if we finish a TCP connection to a Tor relay and we have already reached
  1516. the "conn_or" phase. We'll stay in this phase until we complete a TLS
  1517. handshake with a Tor relay.
  1518. Phase 90:
  1519. tag=circuit_create summary="Establishing circuits"
  1520. Once we've finished our TLS handshake with an entry guard, we will
  1521. set about trying to make some 3-hop circuits in case we need them soon.
  1522. Phase 100:
  1523. tag=done summary="Done"
  1524. A full 3-hop exit circuit has been established. Tor is ready to handle
  1525. application connections now.