How to control tor, when use tor proxy

Question

I\'m trying to connect to a resource using a tor, changing identity. But after the first connection attempt to change identity causes an error. Code:

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Answer 1

Interesting. I wonder if...

socket.socket = socks.socksocket

is causing _make_socket() to get a non-standard socket, and in turn bulk. If you use PycURL instead does it work?

Answer 2

The problem is caused by the socket.socket = socks.socksocket line.

As a temporary solution, one can keep a backup copy of socket.socket and use that to unset the proxy before asking Tor for a new identity, then set up the proxy again.

The code will look like this:

import urllib2, socks, socket
from stem import Signal
from stem.control import Controller

old_socket = socket.socket
socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, "127.0.0.1", 9050)
socket.socket = socks.socksocket

def newI():
    socket.socket = old_socket  # don't use proxy
    with Controller.from_port(port=9051) as controller:
        controller.authenticate()
        controller.signal(Signal.NEWNYM)
    # set up the proxy again
    socket.socket = socks.socksocket

newI()

headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/3.0 (x86 [en] Windows NT 5.1; Sun)'} 
req = urllib2.Request('https://google.com', None, headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
html = response.read()

newI()

However, I am still waiting for someone to post an explanation as to why the error occurs, and a better way to fix it.