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# tor-dirclient
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`tor-dirclient`: Implements a minimal directory client for Tor.
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## Overview
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Tor makes its directory requests as HTTP/1.0 requests tunneled over
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Tor circuits. For most objects, Tor uses a one-hop tunnel. Tor
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also uses a few strange and ad-hoc HTTP headers to select
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particular functionality, such as asking for diffs, compression,
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or multiple documents.
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This crate provides an API for downloading Tor directory resources
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over a Tor circuit.
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This crate is part of
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[Arti](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/), a project to
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implement [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) in Rust.
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## Features
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`xz` -- enable XZ compression. This can be expensive in RAM and CPU,
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but it saves a lot of bandwidth. (On by default.)
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`zstd` -- enable ZSTD compression. (On by default.)
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`routerdesc` -- Add support for downloading router descriptors.
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License: MIT OR Apache-2.0
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