How to use Tor control protocol in C#?
- by Ed
I'm trying to send commands to the Tor control port programmatically to make it refresh the chain. I haven't been able to find any examples in C#, and my solution's not working. The request times out. I have the service running, and I can see it listening on the control port.
public string Refresh()
{
TcpClient client = new TcpClient("localhost", 9051);
string response = string.Empty;
string authenticate = MakeTcpRequest("AUTHENTICATE", client);
if (authenticate.Equals("250"))
response = MakeTcpRequest("SIGNAL NEWNYM", client);
client.Close();
return response;
}
public string MakeTcpRequest(string message, TcpClient client)
{
client.ReceiveTimeout = 20000;
client.SendTimeout = 20000;
string proxyResponse = string.Empty;
try
{
// Send message
StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(client.GetStream());
streamWriter.Write(message);
streamWriter.Flush();
// Read response
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(client.GetStream());
proxyResponse = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
// Ignore
}
return proxyResponse;
}
Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?
