Connecting via TOR raises error

Question

I'm having trouble with connecting to the Internet via TOR. I've followed all instructions from this youtube video but I'm still getting error:

Connected to Tor # printed string

Traceback (most recent call last):
  ....
  ....

  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 787, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
    raise err
socket.error: [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it  

I'm attaching the code:

import httplib
import socket
import socks

port = 9050
url = 'my-ip.heroku.com'

def connectTor():
    socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, "127.0.0.1", port, True)
    socket.socket = socks.socksocket

def main():
    connectTor()

    print("Connected to Tor")
    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url)
    conn.request("GET", "/")
    response = conn.getresponse()
    print(response.read())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

I'm confused because it is said that I have to download TOR from this page: https://www.torproject.org/ - when I installed it, it worked - I could start TOR browser and browse. But this guy has a Vidalia control panel which I don't have.

Where could be the problem?

Answer 1

Instead of using sockets directly, you should use the requesocks library to route your HTTP requests through your locally-running SOCKS proxy.

From there, configure your Session object to use your local proxy for http(s) and then issue arbitrary requests:

session = requests.session()
session.proxies = {'http': 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050',
                   'https': 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050'}
resp = session.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))
print(resp.status_code)
print(resp.text)