Webtunnel support

[nogui]

Why tor control panel (sys-whonix) doesn’t have webtunnel bridges?

[unman]

That’s a question for Whonix that has probably already been dealt with
there.

I never presume to speak for the Qubes team.
When I comment in the Forum I speak for myself.

[qubist]

Adding WebTunnel Pluggable Transport to Qubes-Whonix?

Hello, as you maybe know, the Tor Project introduced a new type of bridge: WebTunnel. It looks like a regular WebSocket connection/regular web traffic, and thus is very effective in bypassing censorship. I think it would benefit a lot of users, as obfs4 bridges are getting IP blocked (in Russia, for example). Qubes OS already has Snowflake support which is cool (but it’s usually a bit slower than other bridge transports), why not add WebTunnel? Thanks.

[FullVINQubes]

Agreed this is mostly a Whonix packaging / Tor Controller question rather than core Qubes.

WebTunnel is a pluggable transport, so the pieces you need are: the webtunnel client binary in the Whonix gateway, bridge lines that use webtunnel, and the controller UI knowing how to offer that transport the same way it already offers obfs4/snowflake.

Until it shows up in the Qubes-Whonix panel, the workable path is usually:

1. Get a WebTunnel bridge line from bridges.torproject.org (choose WebTunnel).

2. Add it manually in Whonix gateway Tor config / TorRC the way you would for other PTs.

3. Confirm the PT is actually installed in the gateway template (which webtunnel or check the Whonix packages for pluggable transports).

Worth checking / bumping the related thread on the Whonix forums too, since that is where the control panel feature would land first. Snowflake already being present is a good sign the plumbing can grow another PT.