request-manager

@trezor/request-manager

Library to allow efficient and stable proxy for requests using Tor or other similar systems. For now it works specifically with Tor, but it may be more generic in future and integrate with other similar proxy systems like Tor.

Examples

import { TorController } from '@trezor/request-manager';

const host = 'localhost';
const port = 9030;
const controlPort = 9031;
// If the 'CookieAuthentication' option is true, Tor writes a "magic
// cookie" file named "control_auth_cookie" into its data directory (or
// to another file specified in the 'CookieAuthFile' option).
// https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/control-spec.txt
const torDataDir = '/path/to/control_auth_cookie/';

const torController = new TorController({
    host: torHost,
    port: port,
    controlPort: controlPort,
    torDataDir: torDataDir,
});

try {
    await torController.waitUntilAlive();
    // Start using proxy.
} catch (error) {
    // Connection not possible, handle it.
}

Tests

To run the tests use the command below:

yarn test:e2e

You might want to run the tests with a different Tor binary, it is possible to use the env variable TOR_BINARY_PATH for that, like:

TOR_PROCESS_DIR=/path/to/torbinary yarn test:e2e

Build

To build the library run the command below:

yarn build:lib