Like all non-stable version build of the tor browser, it is recommended to use it with caution, as it is not fully tested for the best security and stability.
What is webtunnel’s advantage?
The communication with a webtunnel bridge is in HTTPS protocol, thus difficult to identify. Furthermore, the same network address can host a website in coexistence of the webtunnel bridge, making active probing less effective.
Dec 03 11:56:35.000 [info] managed_proxy_stderr_callback(): Managed proxy at 'PluggableTransports\webtunnel-client.exe' reported via standard error: 2022/12/03 11:56:35 SOCKS accepted: {192.0.2.3:1 url=https://n97jlbvjwy3iotetc0axrtu3mm7gq1gajqv7-80-78-24-44.sslip.io/939e42a2-8f3f-4645-9d7b-8b9be28b157e map[url:[https://n97jlbvjwy3iotetc0axrtu3mm7gq1gajqv7-80-78-24-44.sslip.io/939e42a2-8f3f-4645-9d7b-8b9be28b157e]]}
Dec 03 11:56:35.000 [info] managed_proxy_stderr_callback(): Managed proxy at 'PluggableTransports\webtunnel-client.exe' reported via standard error: 2022/12/03 11:56:35 dial error: unrecognized reply
Dec 03 11:56:35.000 [info] managed_proxy_stderr_callback(): Managed proxy at 'PluggableTransports\webtunnel-client.exe' reported via standard error: 2022/12/03 11:56:35 Handler ended
It seems that the webtunnel process was crashed on server side. I have fixed it by restarting it. I will try to find out the root cause for the crash of the process.
tested WEbTunnel with two bridges from bridges.torproject.org in tor alpha win64-13.0a1
Didn’t notice any problem for connection during ~2 hours of web browsing. I think it’s 50% faster than obfs4 bridges . (my connection is very slow in general, about 730KB down and 60KB up, it’s hard for me to tell how much faster this type of bridges really are)
Country: Iran
ISP: Asiatech
log of first try with a bridge:
2023-07-27 11:56:55.437 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 11:56:55.440 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 11:56:55.450 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-07-27 11:56:55.450 [NOTICE] Switching to guard context "bridges" (was using "default")
2023-07-27 11:56:55.462 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-07-27 11:57:04.459 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 11:57:15.039 [NOTICE] Renaming old configuration file to "C:\Users\LOL\Desktop\tor alpha\Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Tor\torrc.orig.1"
2023-07-27 11:57:21.880 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-07-27 11:57:21.888 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-07-27 11:57:24.672 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150
2023-07-27 11:57:24.673 [NOTICE] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9150
2023-07-27 11:57:25.640 [WARN] Managed proxy "N/A" process terminated with status code 0
2023-07-27 11:57:25.640 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 1% (conn_pt): Connecting to pluggable transport
2023-07-27 11:57:25.645 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 2% (conn_done_pt): Connected to pluggable transport
2023-07-27 11:57:28.798 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay
2023-07-27 11:57:28.958 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay
2023-07-27 11:57:29.836 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done
2023-07-27 11:57:29.837 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 20% (onehop_create): Establishing an encrypted directory connection
2023-07-27 11:57:30.012 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 25% (requesting_status): Asking for networkstatus consensus
2023-07-27 11:57:30.180 [NOTICE] Bridge 'WTBrlcaFUb5NJj' has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. Will prefer using its IPv6 address ([2001:db8:77cb:5ce6:9995:7466:7ffa:b3f8]:443) based on the configured Bridge address.
2023-07-27 11:57:30.180 [NOTICE] new bridge descriptor 'WTBrlcaFUb5NJj' (fresh): $770EA6412C8D3997ABFFF7173A3E53F1D3660167~WTBrlcaFUb5NJj [G6J3fNC6WGVoBcoDh8Q7PgU6kBqWJXamxQvYs7YXFlE] at 95.216.211.192 and [2001:db8:77cb:5ce6:9995:7466:7ffa:b3f8]
2023-07-27 11:57:30.821 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 30% (loading_status): Loading networkstatus consensus
2023-07-27 11:57:41.888 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 45% (requesting_descriptors): Asking for relay descriptors
2023-07-27 11:57:41.890 [NOTICE] I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We need more microdescriptors: we have 23/7180, and can only build 0% of likely paths. (We have 100% of guards bw, 0% of midpoint bw, and 0% of exit bw = 0% of path bw.)
2023-07-27 11:57:42.511 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 50% (loading_descriptors): Loading relay descriptors
2023-07-27 11:57:44.018 [NOTICE] I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We need more microdescriptors: we have 23/7180, and can only build 0% of likely paths. (We have 100% of guards bw, 0% of midpoint bw, and 0% of exit bw = 0% of path bw.)
2023-07-27 11:57:44.018 [NOTICE] I learned some more directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We need more microdescriptors: we have 23/7180, and can only build 0% of likely paths. (We have 100% of guards bw, 0% of midpoint bw, and 0% of exit bw = 0% of path bw.)
2023-07-27 11:58:55.875 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 55% (loading_descriptors): Loading relay descriptors
2023-07-27 11:58:55.877 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 60% (loading_descriptors): Loading relay descriptors
2023-07-27 11:58:55.879 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 66% (loading_descriptors): Loading relay descriptors
2023-07-27 11:58:57.234 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits
2023-07-27 11:58:57.725 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits
2023-07-27 11:58:57.727 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit
2023-07-27 11:58:57.727 [WARN] Only one bridge (transport: 'webtunnel') is configured. You should have at least two for conflux, for any transport that is not 'snowflake'.
2023-07-27 11:58:59.877 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done
second try with another bridge added:
2023-07-27 12:06:59.124 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 12:06:59.124 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 12:06:59.263 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-07-27 12:06:59.269 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-07-27 12:07:04.481 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150
2023-07-27 12:07:04.481 [NOTICE] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9150
2023-07-27 12:07:04.889 [NOTICE] Bridge 'WTBrlcaFUb5NJj' has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. Will prefer using its IPv6 address ([2001:db8:77cb:5ce6:9995:7466:7ffa:b3f8]:443) based on the configured Bridge address.
2023-07-27 12:07:04.890 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 1% (conn_pt): Connecting to pluggable transport
2023-07-27 12:07:04.891 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 2% (conn_done_pt): Connected to pluggable transport
2023-07-27 12:07:05.476 [WARN] Managed proxy "N/A" process terminated with status code 0
2023-07-27 12:07:05.857 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay
2023-07-27 12:07:07.469 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay
2023-07-27 12:07:08.407 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done
2023-07-27 12:07:08.408 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 20% (onehop_create): Establishing an encrypted directory connection
2023-07-27 12:07:08.578 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 25% (requesting_status): Asking for networkstatus consensus
2023-07-27 12:07:08.990 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 50% (loading_descriptors): Loading relay descriptors
2023-07-27 12:07:09.196 [NOTICE] Bridge 'WTBrlcaFUb5NJj' has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. Will prefer using its IPv6 address ([2001:db8:77cb:5ce6:9995:7466:7ffa:b3f8]:443) based on the configured Bridge address.
2023-07-27 12:07:18.705 [NOTICE] Bridge 'WTBrqb6XpehVfU' has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address. Will prefer using its IPv6 address ([2001:db8:4279:e683:5c82:c721:4453:18d]:443) based on the configured Bridge address.
2023-07-27 12:07:18.705 [NOTICE] new bridge descriptor 'WTBrqb6XpehVfU' (fresh): $09B01A4C251F17E28426E4FB60A317EFF93CC50B~WTBrqb6XpehVfU [QNX6gUK0fL4OWEMpeepyD5YXD8t69DMQxrHzrRC4rWg] at 216.238.69.151 and [2001:db8:4279:e683:5c82:c721:4453:18d]
2023-07-27 12:07:18.706 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits
2023-07-27 12:07:19.026 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits
2023-07-27 12:07:19.027 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit
2023-07-27 12:07:21.120 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done
2023-07-27 12:07:25.064 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 12:08:44.545 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 13:06:08.416 [NOTICE] Have tried resolving or connecting to address '[scrubbed]' at 3 different places. Giving up.
2023-07-27 13:06:53.297 [NOTICE] Have tried resolving or connecting to address '[scrubbed]' at 3 different places. Giving up.
2023-07-27 13:07:43.430 [NOTICE] We tried for 15 seconds to connect to '[scrubbed]' using exit $5AA6370205AA611CED967BDB4D8EBCB9D5DB57A9~AllTheWorldsAStage [UusPHrbA7SADCLEEn7HM+nOeClu+wWa47I5RHbmkrZA] at 107.189.1.160. Retrying on a new circuit.
2023-07-27 14:03:41.566 [NOTICE] Have tried resolving or connecting to address '[scrubbed]' at 3 different places. Giving up.
2023-07-27 14:05:33.761 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 14:11:53.164 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.
2023-07-27 14:49:20.096 [NOTICE] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.