[HTTPS-Everywhere] Why is HTTPS-Everywhere trying to connect to 127.0.0.1:9050?

[Dave Warren]

On 2014-02-28 08:21, paulrcc at hushmail.com wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 at 10:40 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" 
> <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>
>     On 02/19/2014 08:41 AM, paulrcc at hushmail.com wrote:
>     > I use Firefox plugin and I detected connections to
>     localhost:9050 when
>     > HTTPS-Everywhere plugin is enabled. When plugin is disabled,
>     this does
>     > not occur. Observatory is disabled.
>
>     localhost:9050 is a common port for the system tor socks proxy to run
>     on. Are you sure you didn't also do some sort of tor configuration or
>     reconfigure your proxy settings around the same time as installing
>     https-everywhere
>
>
> No, I did no proxy configuration. I just installed Firefox with HTTPS 
> Everywhere and when the plugin is enabled my firewall detects 
> connections to 127.0.0.1:9050.

Given that HTTPS Everywhere has some internal Tor support, I wonder if 
it's simply checking to see if a typical Tor install is available?

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Dave Warren
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