---------------------------------------- OSX lynx over tor November 14th, 2017 ---------------------------------------- The fine gentlemen on #freenode's gopher channel were showing off some of their gopher sites served over tor. I wanted to test it out while I was at work on my MacBook Air. This machine wasn't configured to use tor at all, so here's the process I went through to get everything working. (It's really easy) Step 1: Install tor and torsocks and lynx if you don't have them brew install tor torsocks lynx Step 2: Use this wrapper [0] to launch tor and create the proper networking configuration to use the socks proxy, and disable that proxy when you kill tor. #!/usr/bin/env bash # 'Wi-Fi' or 'Ethernet' or 'Display Ethernet' INTERFACE=Wi-Fi # Ask for the administrator password upfront sudo -v # Keep-alive: update existing `sudo` time stamp until finished while true; do sudo -n true; sleep 60; kill -0 "$$" || exit; done 2>/dev/null & # trap ctrl-c and call disable_proxy() function disable_proxy() { sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate $INTERFACE off echo "$(tput setaf 64)" #green echo "SOCKS proxy disabled." echo "$(tput sgr0)" # color reset } trap disable_proxy INT # Let's roll sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy $INTERFACE 127.0.0.1 9050 off sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate $INTERFACE on echo "$(tput setaf 64)" # green echo "SOCKS proxy 127.0.0.1:9050 enabled." echo "$(tput setaf 136)" # orange echo "Starting Tor..." echo "$(tput sgr0)" # color reset tor Step 3: Use torify to launch lynx torify lynx gopher://hg6vgqziawt5s4dj.onion/1/ Your tor service should run fine as-is for browser usage, but it looks like you'll need to use torify if you want to launch a command line app that uses tor. This "just works" for me, so hopefully it will for you as well. Next up, solving this for Linux! (HTM) [0] Simple Tor setup on macOS