I’ve never had trouble with Sparrow wallet before... I’m trying to use the Tor Browser as a proxy, and connect to a public node like nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g or Bitaroo.
The browser is open, and I have toggled “use proxy” on, entered “localhost” as the Proxy URL, and set the port as 9150 (I’ve also tried 9050).
Tried restarting the browser and the wallet. Tried changing servers. Even changed my VPN in case Sparrow was scared of serving American users. All with no luck…
Did something change in Sparrow or Tor? The setup above has always worked perfectly before.
#asknostr #sparrow #privacy #tor
Cc nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2 if you have any pointers?
Select the .onion tor url address of the public node you want to connect to
SSL: on
cert: blank
Use proxy: on
proxy url: 127.0.0.1
port: 9150
test the connection
if not, close all the way out of tor and sparrow then open tor browser again and get connection, open sparrow and test connection again
should see the tor icon in sparrow say "external tor proxy enabled"
Heya, thank you!! I’m just seeing this now, but it turns out that the proxy URL was the missing piece. I had “localhost” instead of 127.0.0.1
Perhaps I’m mistaken but i was pretty sure localhost always worked in the past. But then again, i set it once and didn’t really look at it again for a while til today.
We’re good now. But thanks again for the exact solution!!
Great! I had to add ip to my local node instead of dot local with latest sparrow update.
