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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-09-19 09:25:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-09-19 09:26:54 -0400 |
| commit | b74a1c77a4b81ebd8cc63ec108617645d396d9fd (patch) | |
| tree | 33ef1dfa0c0b4cf5bf314fe18928ac0e8bb51058 /doc | |
| parent | 1f602e86433cc132981e8f9727266353ea2c3b0e (diff) | |
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Document that .onion subdomains are ignored by clients
addr-spec.txt also explains this, but we should get it into the
manpage too.
Closes ticket #18736.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index f669a055c0..2083bb131a 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -2989,6 +2989,11 @@ __HiddenServiceDirectory__**/hostname**:: The <base32-encoded-fingerprint>.onion domain name for this hidden service. If the hidden service is restricted to authorized clients only, this file also contains authorization data for all clients. + + + Note that clients will ignore any extra subdomains prepended to a hidden + service hostname. So if you have "xyz.onion" as your hostname, you + can tell clients to connect to "www.xyz.onion" or "irc.xyz.onion" + for virtual-hosting purposes. __HiddenServiceDirectory__**/private_key**:: The private key for this hidden service. |