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In ticket:26653#comment:8 I mentioned it may be nice if there was an easier way of requesting a new connection other than via a SOCKS connection. Adding an interface for creating a connection when roughly the same parameters Tor receives from the SOCKS handshake. In fact, I wonder if providing this as a wrapper around a default SOCKS client implementation may be an easy way of doing this.

Something like:

/**
 * Tells Tor to open a socket for a client connection to the requested
 * destination.  Return the socket.
 */
SOCKS_SOCKET tor_main_create_connection(tor_main_configuration_t *cfg,
                                        const char * hostname,
                                        uint16_t port,
                                        const char * stream_isolation);

Note, we don't need this for Tor Browser for Android. This is simply a more general idea.